eRock

Sometime this weekend is Mexican Independance day or something of the like. I live in a prodominately Mexican neighborhood, so you can imagine it's pretty crazy around here right now. What I wanna know is what exactly is the Independance Day this weekend & then Cinco De Mayo?

Is Cince De Mayo independance from when the Mexicans threw the Fench out way back when? And what's celebrated this weekend Independence as the modern day Mexico?

Verbosa

Hidalgo's Call for Mexican Independence

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Mexican Independence Day. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated with more fanfare by Latinos in the United States, as opposed to 16 de Septiembre (September 16th), which is the day that celebrates Mexican Independence from Spain, and is the the day that is celebrated in Mexico as Mexican Independence Day. The reasons why this dichotomy exists lies in decisions made during the Civil Rights Era, by the leaders of the Chicano Movement.

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the first leader of the Mexican revolt against Spanish rule, is known as the father of Mexican independence. Abandoning academic life in the early 1790s, Hidalgo served as the pastor of several central Mexican parishes. He made most of these parishes into centers of cultural life and independent economic endeavor, although Spanish law prohibited economic activity that competed with industry in Spain. In 1803 he became the pastor of Dolores, a town in Guanajuato. There he and his intellectual associates eventually conspired to achieve independence from Spain. When their conspiracy was discovered, they proclaimed rebellion- el Grito de Dolores (cry of Dolores)--on Sept. 16, 1810, the day usually celebrated as Mexican Independence Day.

Mexico was later conquered by the French army, and their susequent defeat by the Mexican army is celebrated on Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Battle of Puebla, Mexico, where on May 5, 1862, Mexican patriots defeated the French army.

eRock

Thanks for clearing that up. I asked Mexicans here. The younger generation ones that can speak English just keep tellin' me they're both an Independence day & seen to just make 'em both out as an excuse to party...which is fine, but I wanted to know for real.

theking

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Dax

Ignorant mofo's... How can they not know their own shit?!?!?! Verbosa hit it in the money. As a matter of fact, most of the central american countries celebrat their independence from Spain on either the 15th or the 16th of September...

gaby

yeah baby, we defeated the french army.. the most powerful army at the time

LiveDose

I thought 'Cinco De Mayo' meant 'drink until you pass out'.

Fuckin' spanish lessons...

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eRock

Well...they're all punk gangbanger type. I don't expect them to know too much. But ya ask most people in this country just about anything about their own country & they usually don't know shit either. I've heard some people not even know the capital of their own state....and thiunk we have 51 or 52 states. I'm surprised they can remember how to wipe their ass! Bunch a dumbasses...