FELIZ CINCO DE MAYO 2019 TODOS!
In the estate we were decorating everything with all kinds of Mexican Party decorations.
Me: This is gonna be awesome! (To the Viewers) Oh hey there. You are probably wondering why everything is all covered with Mexican Decorations. Well today is a special day for both Mexico and the United States. It's May 5th, 2019 A.K.A. Cinco De Mayo. And this is an important part of Mexico's history. On May 5th, 1862 when the American Civil War raged on, French colonizers from France came to Mexico to try and take over the country. But the Mexican's wouldn't let them. It was in the Battle of Puebla on May 5th, 1862 that the Mexican Army drove the French Colonizers away and liberated all of Mexico from the French Colonizers and ever since that day 157 years ago today, it's been an important part of Mexico's history. But it's mostly celebrated here in the U.S. Here's some Gratuitous Educational Information to help you.
GRATUITOUS EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION
Cinco de Mayo (pronounced [ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo] in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. The victory of the smaller Mexican force against a larger French force was a boost to morale for the Mexicans. A year after the battle, a larger French force defeated Zaragoza at the Second Battle of Puebla, and Mexico City soon fell to the invaders.
In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has taken on a significance beyond that in Mexico. More popularly celebrated in the United States than Mexico, the date has become associated with the celebration of Mexican-American culture. These celebrations began in California, where they have been observed annually since 1863. The day gained nationwide popularity in the 1980s thanks especially to advertising campaigns by beer and wine companies. Today, Cinco de Mayo generates beer sales on par with the Super Bowl.
In Mexico, the commemoration of the battle continues to be mostly ceremonial, such as through military parades or battle reenactments. The city of Puebla marks the event with an arts festival, a festival of local cuisine, and re-enactments of the battle.
Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken for Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16, commemorating the Cry of Dolores, which initiated the war of Mexican independence from Spain.
Cinco de Mayo has its roots in the Second French intervention in Mexico, which took place in the aftermath of the 1846–48 Mexican–American War and the 1858–61 Reform War. The Reform War was a civil war that pitted Liberals (who believed in separation of church and state, and freedom of religion) against Conservatives (who favored a tight bond between the Catholic Church and the Mexican state). These wars nearly bankrupted the Mexican Treasury. On July 17, 1861, Mexican President Benito Juárez issued a moratorium in which all foreign debt payments would be suspended for two years. In response, Britain, France, and Spain sent naval forces to Veracruz to demand reimbursement. Britain and Spain negotiated with Mexico and withdrew, but France, at the time ruled by Napoleon III, decided to use the opportunity to establish an empire in Mexico that would favor French interests, the Second Mexican Empire. The empire was part of an envisioned "Latin America" (term used to imply cultural kinship of the region with France) that would rebuild French influence in the American continent and exclude Anglophone American territories.
Late in 1861, a well-armed French fleet attacked Veracruz, landing a large French force and driving President Juárez and his government into retreat. Moving on from Veracruz towards Mexico City, the French army encountered heavy resistance from the Mexicans close to Puebla, at the Mexican forts of Loreto and Guadalupe. The French army of 8,000 attacked the poorly equipped Mexican army of 4,000. On May 5, 1862, the Mexicans decisively defeated the French army. The victory represented a significant morale boost to the Mexican army and the Mexican people at large and helped establish a sense of national unity and patriotism.
The Mexican victory, however, was short-lived. A year later, with 30,000 troops, the French were able to defeat the Mexican army, capture Mexico City, and install Emperor Maximilian I as ruler of Mexico. The French victory was itself short-lived, lasting only three years, from 1864 to 1867. By 1865, "with the American Civil War now over, the U.S. began to provide more political and military assistance to Mexico to expel the French". Upon the conclusion of the American Civil War, Napoleon III, facing a persistent Mexican guerilla resistance, the threat of war with Prussia, and "the prospect of a serious scrap with the United States", retreated from Mexico starting in 1866. The Mexicans recaptured Mexico City, and Maximilian I was apprehended and executed, along with his Mexican generals Miguel Miramón and Tomás Mejía Camacho in Cerro de las Campanas, Querétaro. "On June 5, 1867, Benito Juárez finally entered Mexico City where he installed a new government and reorganized his administration."
The Battle of Puebla was significant, both nationally and internationally, for several reasons. First, although considerably outnumbered, the Mexicans defeated a better-equipped French army. "This battle was significant in that the 4,000 Mexican soldiers were greatly outnumbered by the well-equipped French army of 8,000 that had not been defeated for almost 50 years." Second, since the Battle of Puebla, some have argued that no country in the Americas has subsequently been invaded by any other European military force. Historian Justo Sierra has written in his Political Evolution of the Mexican People that, had Mexico not defeated the French in Puebla on May 5, 1862, France would have gone to the aid of the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War and the United States' destiny would have been different.
According to a paper published by the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture about the origin of the observance of Cinco de Mayo in the United States, the modern American focus on that day first started in California in 1863 in response to the resistance to French rule in Mexico. "Far up in the gold country town of Columbia (now Columbia State Park) Mexican miners were so overjoyed at the news that they spontaneously fired off rifle shots and fireworks, sang patriotic songs and made impromptu speeches."
A 2007 UCLA Newsroom article notes that "the holiday, which has been celebrated in California continuously since 1863, is virtually ignored in Mexico." TIME magazine reports that "Cinco de Mayo started to come into vogue in 1940s America during the rise of the Chicano Movement." The holiday crossed over from California into the rest of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s but did not gain popularity until the 1980s when marketers, especially beer companies, capitalized on the celebratory nature of the day and began to promote it. It grew in popularity and evolved into a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage, first in areas with large Mexican-American populations, like Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, New York, followed by Cleveland, Boston, Indianapolis, Raleigh, Dallas, San Antonio, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Denver, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Tucson, San Francisco, San Jose, and San Diego.
In a 1998 study in the Journal of American Culture it was reported that there were more than 120 official US celebrations of Cinco de Mayo in 21 different states. An update in 2006 found that the number of official Cinco de Mayo events was 150 or more, according to José Alamillo, a professor of ethnic studies at Washington State University in Pullman, who has studied the cultural impact of Cinco de Mayo north of the border. Los Angeles' Fiesta Broadway has been billed as the largest Cinco de Mayo celebration in the world, which it most certainly was at its peak in the 1990s when it attracted crowds of 500,000 or more. In recent years attendance has seen a dramatic decrease.
On June 7, 2005, the United States Congress issued a concurrent resolution calling on the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe Cinco de Mayo with appropriate ceremonies and activities. To celebrate, many display Cinco de Mayo banners while school districts hold special events to educate students about its historical significance. Special events and celebrations highlight Mexican culture, especially in its music and regional dancing. Examples include baile folklórico and mariachi demonstrations held annually at the Plaza del Pueblo de Los Ángeles, near Olvera Street. Commercial interests in the United States have capitalized on the celebration, advertising Mexican products and services, with an emphasis on alcoholic beverages, foods, and music. According to Nielsen, in 2013 more than $600 million worth of beer was purchased in the United States for Cinco de Mayo, more than for the Super Bowl or St. Patrick's Day.
The former Forts of Guadalupe and Loreto now house a museum.
On May 9, 1862, President Juárez declared that the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla would be a national holiday regarded as "Battle of Puebla Day" or "Battle of Cinco de Mayo".
Today, the commemoration of the battle is not observed as a national holiday in Mexico (i.e. not a statutory holiday). However, all public schools are closed nationwide in Mexico on May 5. The day is an official holiday in the State of Puebla, where the Battle took place, and also a full holiday (no work) in the neighboring State of Veracruz.
In Puebla, historical reenactments, parades, and meals take place to commemorate the battle. Parade participants dress as French and Mexican soldiers to reenact the battle. Every year the city also hosts the Festival Internacional de Puebla, which gathers national and international artists, traditional musicians and dancers.[54] As well as the Festival Internacional del Mole, with an emphasis on the city's iconic mole poblano.
In Mexico City, military commemoration is occasionally held at the Campo Marte. A street, Avenida Cinco de Mayo, in the Historic Center of Mexico City was named after the battle in 1862 by Benito Juárez.
Events tied to Cinco de Mayo also occur outside Mexico and the United States. As in the United States, celebrations elsewhere also emphasize Mexican cuisine, culture and music. For example, some Canadian pubs play Mexican music and serve Mexican food and drink, and a sky-diving club near Vancouver holds a Cinco de Mayo skydiving event. In the Cayman Islands, in the Caribbean, there is an annual Cinco de Mayo air guitar competition, and at Montego Bay, Jamaica, there is a Cinco de Mayo celebration. The city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, holds an annual Mexican Festival to honor the day, and celebrations are held in London and New Zealand. Other celebrations of the day can also be found in Cape Town, South Africa, Lagos, Nigeria, and in Paris. Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in Japan in Osaka and in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park Event Space as a celebration of Latin American culture.
Me: And there you have it folks. We love all the holidays. It's too bad that Cinco De Mayo is not one of the major holidays. But it is right up there. Mr. Lynn and Ms. Rosa are cooking up the Cinco De Mayo feast and I love Mexican food.
I go into the kitchen and there was a lot of Mexican Food being cooked by Lynn Loud Sr. and Rosa Casagrande.
Me: Ms. Rosa is just as much as a magnificent cook as Mr. Lynn and we have all kinds of food ready. We have Chalupas, Tamales, Chiles En Nogada, Pollo Asada, Fajitas, Burritos, Pico De Gallo, guacamole and my number one favorite meal: Mole Poblano.
Lynn Sr.: You sure love Mexican food don't you J.D.?
Me: I sure do Mr. Lynn.
Rosa: (Spanish Accent) You are a growing superhero J.D. and you need to eat good.
Me: Thanks Ms. Rosa. But also I love food from Mexico because of another food: HOT SAUCE!
CALIENTE!
Lynn Sr.: Perfect J.D. We're almost ready for the feast.
Me: Okay Mr. Lynn.
Omi: (Tibetan Accent) Friends, I wish to invite Jermaine to our party. It has been some time since we last saw him.
Raimundo: Good idea. He's gonna be surprised to see that the four of us are now Wudai Warriors.
Me: Good idea Omi. You better go get him.
Nico: Hey J.D. Are you ready to have an awesome Cinco De Mayo Party!?
Me: You know I am Nico!
Manaphy, Poromon, Horsea, and Poliwag: HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO, EVERYBODY!
May: Happy Cinco De Mayo guys.
Nico: Ramjet you better take Omi to get Jermaine.
Ramjet: I'm on it Nico.
Ramjet was off with Omi to get Jermaine. They arrived at his house in San Francisco, California.
Omi knocked on his door. Jermaine answered.
Jermaine: Omi!
Omi: It is good to see you again Jermaine. Would you like to join us at the Team Loud Phoenix Storm estate for a Cindo De Mayo party?
Jermaine: I'd be glad to go to your party, Omi Dawg!
Omi: Glad to hear it, my friend.
Ramjet: Now that you've accepted the invitation, is there any food around here that we can get for the party?
Jermaine: I have a special treat already.
Jermaine held out a jar of Ghost Peppers!
Jermaine: Ghost Peppers!
Ramjet: Oooh! J.D. loves ghost peppers.
They went back to the estate.
I was helping Bobby set up some more decorations.
Raimundo: You guys never heard about this but I was manipulated by Wuya and I betrayed my friends. But I was saved from myself.
Omi: And I was manipulated by Chase Young into becoming evil as well.
Nico: Ok, guys. It's very strange that I even need to say this to you all. But, apparently, I need to make something clear. No one, ever, on this team, is to make friends with any irredeemable villains, EVER. Do I make myself clear?
Maria Rockell: Of course, Nico.
Brawl: Loud and clear, boss.
Gears: Don't worry. We won't forget that.
Star Lord: Yep. We'll remember that.
Nico: I mean, I thought me and J.D. did a good job teaching you all right from wrong. I mean, are we crazy? You guys all know what it's like to be heroes, right?
Star Lord: We sure do. Now we understand.
Bobby: Can you believe that it's been over a year since I moved in with you guys?
Me: I know compadre and it's awesome.
Johann: (Russian Accent) I love Cinco De Mayo comrades. Back in Russia we weren't familiar with such holidays.
Varya: (Indian Accent) It's gonna be an awesome hollday.
Luna: And what good is a Cinco De Mayo holiday without Mexican Music dudes?
Luna put in a CD in the CD Player and it was of Mexico's greatest songs and it played.
Poromon: Who wants to have an eating contest with me?
Kirby: I do!
We were eating the food and it was delicious and tasty. I put some delicious and spicy hot sauce on and it was tasty.
Me: Mmm. Caliente en muy delicioso.
Jeremie: William, are you sure you want to eat that ghost pepper?
We gasped at what William was gonna do.
Me: William are you crazy!?
William: I want to see what these peppers taste like.
Me: (Gulps)
William just ate the ghost pepper. At first, nothing seemed to happen.
Maria Rockell (concerned): William, are you ok?
William (feeling sweaty): Oh, I'm fine.
Maria Rockell: You sure?
William: Yep! (finally vomits)
I put a bucket in his face and then fire exploded out of his ears and Lola and Yuko absorbed the fire.
Maria managed to spray William's mouth with water before he could throw up blood. Steam came out of his mouth.
Maria Rockell: That pepper could've killed you, William.
William (smiles): It was worth it.
Maria Rockell (smiles back): I'm sure it was.
William: Well, with that out of the way, let's continue on with the party.
We did so. We had all kinds of awesome fun and more.
Nico: Delicious food and awesome dancing.
Cyborg Lincoln: Shall we dance señora?
Ronnie Anne: Si senior.
Cyborg Lincoln had a rose in his mouth and they danced to the Tango. He was a great tango dancer and he had a great style. When they finished we cheered wildly.
Me: EVERYBODY TANGO!
Ronnie Anne: That was awesome!
Cyborg: Glad you liked it babe.
Ronnie Anne: Thanks Sweetie.
Lori: That was literally awesome Boo-Boo-Bear.
Bobby: It sure was babe.
William: I also learned something from today.
Aelita: What's that?
William: Never eat a ghost pepper under normal circumstances.
We laughed.
Rex Salazar and Blue Beetle were having an Arm Wrestling contest and Blue Beetle won. Poromon and Kirby were completely bloated from their eating contest and they were stuffed like Thanksgiving Turkeys.
Poromon: (Groans) I'm so full.
Kirby: (BURPS) I am too. But I would say that I won.
Ronnie Anne: Guys, I want to thank you all for making this the best Cinco De Mayo party ever.
Me: It was no problem Ronnie Anne.
Luan: Yeah we all had so much fun.
Eddy: We sure did my Angel of Comedy.
Nico: Happy Cinco De Mayo May.
May: You too Nico.
Vince: Happy Cinco De Mayo Carol.
Carol: Same to you Vince.
Francis: Happy Cinco De Mayo Teresa.
Teresa: You too Francis.
Laney: This was so much fun. I loved all the food and the dancing.
Joey: (British Accent) Me too Laney.
Luan: (To the Viewers) Today was a rockin day dudes and Happy Cinco De Mayo to you all.
Me: You said it Luna. (To the Viewers) The culture and history of Mexico is an amazing source of information and all that. But the food is so delicious and more. The dancing and the festivities and more are awesome. Happy Cinco De Mayo everyone!
I winked at everyone in the audience and the camera irised in around my face with a sombrero and the flag of Mexico waved in the background around it.
OLE!
THE END
Another Fanfiction Complete.
Everything I said about this holiday is all true. NicoChan11 gave me the ideas for this one. Thanks man as usual. Let me know what you all think.
HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO 2019 Everyone.
See you all next time