Cinco de Mayo is about the continuing happiness Mexicans enjoyed of successfully forcing out a foreign military from their country in the 1800s.
Cinco de Mayo is about the continuing happiness Mexicans enjoyed of successfully forcing out a foreign military from their country in the 1800s.
Some might say Cinco de May is about the continuing happiness of Mexican liquor companies, who celebrate fruitful export businesses to their neighboring country. On the surface it's true I guess. Let's dig past the commercial surface candy today, this day of Cinco de Mayo.
Mexicans forced out a foreign military that had been controlling them on May 5. It was the French Napoleon. At first blush you might want to say it is an independence day holiday. But Mexico was already independent. The French army just sat on them anyway until May 5!
So, I'm saying, it's not correct to call it an Indendence day. Mexico was already a country of its own, but was being oppresssed by a foreign military. So Cinco de Mayo is more of a re-independence day. France's military was simply much stronger than Mexico's and as a result, France had had her way with Mexico for a while.
History often tends to have nuggets of very interesting information buried just under the bland vanilla surface.
Do you enjoy and support Cinco de Mayo?
In the near future, will any other countries of our world also enjoy forcing out foreign militaries from their countries? Will there be additional Cinco de Mayos?
Or will the future see instead, more unhappiness of foreign militaries moving into their countries, or staying in their countries.
Your thoughts on the possible future of enjoying more Cinco de Mayos in countries around the world. The citizens of which country today, in your opinion, are most deserving to enjoy the freedom (and domestic business successes) of the next Cinco de Mayo?
Please do have a drink today in honor of freedom from foreign military occupations around the world. For the mere cost of a beer you really can help to keep alive the spirit and message of international freedom from foreign military occupations.