A repost from a few years ago but I still think it’s interesting. 🙂
Yes, I just love this song and Carlos Santana IS Mexican so it works, right? Rob Thomas’ wife (the lady in the window) is Puerto Rican. Close enough…
Cinco de Mayo!!! For many people, May 5th has something to do with a Mexican battle and is a perfect excuse to gorge on chips and salsa, inhale tacos and drink a lot of (if not too many) Corona’s, Mexican Martinis and margaritas. Traditionally for me, Cinco de Mayo celebrations are about finding the most colorful dress you have and preparing to drink to oblivion (or most often in my case watching other people drink to oblivion). There’s been very little history or real knowledge associated with the date. But a few years ago I learned something new about the holiday. Who knew Cinco de Mayo had a (near) direct relationship to the emancipation of slavery?
I learned this through a post titled “Market Research: Cinco de Mayo Isn’t Indepence Day” on Advertising Age’s The Big Tent blog. According to the Fayetville Observer (North Carolina):
“During this time, Confederate General Robert E. Lee was enjoying success, and had the French defeated México at Puebla, France would have aided the South in the American Civil War in order to free Southern ports of the Union Blockade. The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen.”
While there’s a lot more to it, the success of the Mexicans over the French aided in the Yankees over the Confederates. Viva la Mexico!
Toasting her Corona,
Jo’van
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