No one celebrates it in Mexico, but we sure love it in the US. What is
Cinco de Mayo? The "Fifth of May" commemorates a time when Mexico rebuffed and repelled French imperial troops who were sent in to collect banking debts. They were defeated and turned away (but returned a year later and succeeded).
No one in Mexico would think to celebrate the fiasco, choosing instead to commemorate the
September 16th "Mexican Independence Day" revolution that overthrew Spanish imperial rule.
Long after Buddhism arrived, Spain came to Mexico and wiped out millions in waves of genocides that introduced chattel slavery, disease, mass rape, incarceration, the death penalty, corporate business, and deadly forms of Christianity -- mostly, but not exclusively, Holy Roman Imperial Catholicism.
Of course, the day is now debased in a 4th of July-style Beer and BBQ fest.
Why drink Bud when you can have a Corona and enrich corporations on both sides of the border? Viva la revoluciรณn!
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