Tim Heilman (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} v3risimilitud3) wrote,@ 2008-04-30 16:05:00 |
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Viva El Cinco de Mayo!
So it turns out that Cinco de Mayo is not the Mexican analogue of the Fourth of July - that's Dieciséis de Septiembre. Evidently it's mostly ignored in Mexico, and celebrated mainly by Mexican-Americans in the US. Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_M
http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/hist
So it turns out that Cinco de Mayo is not the Mexican analogue of the Fourth of July - that's Dieciséis de Septiembre. Evidently it's mostly ignored in Mexico, and celebrated mainly by Mexican-Americans in the US. Read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_M
http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/hist
