Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a holiday that commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. While not an "obligatory federal holiday" in Mexico, it is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla, and in the United States.
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It's very odd that Cinco De Mayo is such a big holiday in America; it has no such resonance in Mexico. After all, the Mexicans ended up losing the war against the French.
I'd place Cinco De Mayo right along with St. Patrick's Day. For some reason or another they've both been commercialized into American drinking holidays and their true meanings have been greatly obscured.
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You're right, I had no idea what Cinco De Mayo was all about until I looked it up yesterday.
I'd like to know why it's not a big holiday all over Mexico too. Politics I bet.
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