At least he's as ignorant of Mexican history as he is of American history.big 54r wrote:this book recently took on more meaning for me because of a conversation I had with an old neighbor
....speaking of the "CONVERSATION" it was one in which said party articulates his love for Mexico and pancho villa over America who stole his people's land that he refer's to (as does the book) as AZTLAN. "Cinco de Mayo is his 4 th of July, that's my people's real INDEPENDENCE DAY"!
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When I said to him this region was won in war and then paid for with the sum of 12-15 million dolllars he was dumbfounded and had never heard of this...dooh!...
May 5 is not "Independence Day" in Mexico. It's not even a federal holiday. It's a regional holiday, mostly only observed in the state of Puebla. It doesn't celebrate independence from Spain, nor a defeat of American soldiers; it celebrates a victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla (as if beating the French is so difficult).
The French were trying to seize assets to collect a debt on which the Mexican government had defaulted.