In case you missed it, Monday, the fifth of May, was the occasion for the Cinco de Mayo holiday in the United States. (The holiday is hardly noticed in Mexico.) It commemorates, for those few interested in anything but public drunkenness, the May 5, 1862, Battle of Puebla, where Mexicans defeated French troops down in the southern state of Puebla. (The battle should rightfully be called the First Battle of Puebla, because the following year, on May 17, 1863, the French returned for a rematch in the Second Battle of Puebla, this time emerging victorious. That occasion might be celebrated — by the victory-starved French perhaps — on Diez-y-siete de Mayo, but no one does.)
The American holiday, basically created by beer companies on both sides of the border, is just an excuse to toss back copious quantities of beer, given that football season is over. It originated, of course, in California. Nowadays, it’s spread across the US, with the yearly encouragement of Anheuser-Busch, Corona, Miller, Coors, etc.
This week, we learn that numerous cities around the country had to scale back its May 5 festivities, due to the fact that many honest-to-goodness Mexicans here illegally were “afraid” to show themselves in public, preferring to get sloshed in the shadows.
In Chicago’s Little Village, for example, a parade that in years past has attracted up to 300,000, was canceled this year. Hector Escobar, president of the sponsoring organization, explained why by noting the responses from illegal Mexican migrants:
How about the parade? How about the festivities? And they say, “Well, if we’re scared to go to work, I don’t think it’s nothing to celebrate.”
Believe me, some people are already thinking about going back to Mexico. The governor of Puebla, Alejandro Armenta, is going to open an office here in Chicago to help people who want to go back to Mexico and try to do some business or try to put the kids back to school in Mexico.
A return to old Puebla. Now that’s something to celebrate.
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