Cinco de Mayo
Posted by enrico | Under Living in Mexico Friday May 5, 2006Well, for the first time ever, I’m actually in Mexico for Cinco de Mayo. Do you know what that means? You know what is going on here?
Nothing.
Cinco de Mayo celebrates a small, victorious event that didn’t change the final outcome at all: the French defeated the Mexican army and took control of Mexico City. Yes, yes, it’s a good story about a people’s rightful rebellion, but it reminds me of the Alamo where it’s memorialized and all that, but it was a grisly defeat. Texas’ independence was won at San Jacinto later, but not too many non-Texans know that. Actually, these days, probably most Texans don’t either. But anyway, everybody remembers the Alamo, even before it was an ugly-ass domed stadium and a crappy movie.
It would be like Americans celebrating one of the acts of rebellion in the 1770s leading up to the Revolution, knowing that days later they got slaughtered anyway. In the end, it doesn’t matter; it’s all about selling more booze.
Burris…
The battle of 5 de Mayo was not small…and we celebrate this battle coz we WON…otherwise we wouldnt even remembering the date DONT U THINK?
AND…u dont see the outcome??? u said it didnt changed the outcome!!!
well…this battle changed history…otherwise we would be speaking french instead of Spanish
ahhh pero que pérdida de tiempo estar viviendo en un país y no aprender ni lo más básico
“Ni lo más básico??” Por favor! Go back and read your history books; the battle didn’t change the outcome of the French victory over Mexico in the overall invasion AT ALL: Napoleon sent a huge batallion after the Batalla de Puebla and Maximillian was imposed as the leader of Mexico. Of course their courage should be and is remembered, but the rebels’ victory was only that battle. Punto final.
Si entiendo perfectamente bien, y la única pérdida de tiempo fue escribiendo esta respuesta