"CINCO DE MAYO": WHAT IN REALITY HAPPENED IN

MEXICO AT PUEBLA, ON MAY 5, 1862

By Rene Guerra

Given the hoopla by the Left and its allies, namely Chicano irredentists, about Cinco de Mayo --
May 5th, that is-- it is necessary to make some comments on the inordinate fabricated
inaccuracies about the ethnic and historic values attributed here in the U.S.A. to what, for all
practical purposes, is a phony festivity. It is opportune as well to comment on the interpretation
that some groups in the United States give to Cinco de Mayo to benefit their own demagogic
interests, the ones, and for their traitorous interests, the others.

Anyone who has lived in Mexico and learned about Mexican civic festivities of significance gets
really mystified by the convoluted meaning that those groups have given to Cinco de Mayo here
in the U.S.A. The inordinate brouhaha surrounding the celebration on this side of the border
perplexes Mexican nationals visiting the U.S. A. And non-Mexican Hispanics newly arriving in
the U.S.A. do not connect with the celebration at all. Cinco de Mayo here in the U.S.A. is but
just a balkanizing tool of the Left and its main front, the Democrat Party, and an agitation tool of
Chicano and Mexican irredentists.

ETHNICITY OF CINCO DE MAYO

Cinco de Mayo does not appeal to all Hispanics; it appeals only to those of Mexican ancestry,
which includes Mexican nationals and Americans of Mexican ethnicity or Chicanos.

The term Hispanic is much broader in meaning; it encompasses peoples that speak Spanish
(Castilian and derivatives) as their native language. This includes countries such as Spain, and
all Spanish speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere. Thus, in addition to people from
Mexico, the term Hispanic encompasses people from, for instance, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru,
Honduras, Chile, Uruguay and more than fifteen other Hispanic countries that have nothing to
do with Cinco de Mayo at all. Cinco de Mayo is as alien to the majority of Hispanic ethnicities in
the U.S.A. as Saint Patrick’s day is to almost all those of European ethnicity.

Put it plainly, Cinco de Mayo is to the majority of Hispanic ethnicities in the U.S.A. just a cheerful
springtime occasion to party on Mexico's delicious cuisine and beautiful customs: burritos,
tacos, quesadillas, chalupas, enchiladas, cochinita pibil, etc. with a background of picturesque
charro parades, colorful folkloric dances and mariachi band (from the French "bande de
marriage", adopted by Mexicans during the French occupation) music. And nothing more, at all!

Peoples in the U.S.A. of South American or Caribbean origin do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo at
all.

As for those of Central American origin, only the ones with ties to Guatemala, Honduras and El
Salvador join the party, but mostly because of culinary affinity, for, historically, there has been
bad blood between Mexico and Central America. Such rancorous feelings are exacerbated by
the brutality with which Mexican authorities treat Central American living in Mexico illegally or
passing through Mexico en route to the U.S.A. Thus, there is a wide and deep gap between
enjoying the enchanting frolics of Cinco de Mayo and the overall-Hispanic ethnicity that the Left
and irredentists here in the U.S.A. want to deceptively attribute to the festivity.
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It fits however to affirm that the 5th of May should mean a lot to all freedom and democracy
loving ethnicities that constitute the United States.

On April 10, 1942, a day after General Edward P. King surrendered the American and Filipino
troops in Bataan to the Japanese during World War II, the barbaric Japanese forced about
55,000 Filipino and 8,000 American captives to march toward Camp O'Donnell. That was the
start of the horridly infamous Bataan Death March.

Although the Japanese kept marching American and Filipino prisoners --and murdering them
along the march-- toward Camp O'Donnell from April through mid June, the core of the March
survivors completed the torturous and murderous trek on April 24. However, the most
monstrous passages of that horrid torment did not end until the 5th of May of 1942, a day before
the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese. That's the real Cinco de Mayo to America! That's the 5th
of May we all should reflectively and temperately commemorate in somber memory of those
defenseless victims of Japanese bestial barbarity. May 5th should be a day for all of us to take
a glance at the future of America with deep circumspection and heed.

HISTORY OF "CINCO DE MAYO"

The meaning that the Left and irredentists in the U.S.A. deceptively and demagogically give to
Cinco de Mayo as a great Mexican historic event is based mostly on a most deceitful
fabrication. They claim that the date commemorates a great battlefield victory in Puebla by
Mexican ragged peasants over the modern French armies occupying Mexico in support of
Emperor Maximilian, an archduke of the Habsburg-Lorraine Austrian house of nobility, and an
importation by traitorous monarchist Mexicans facilitated by Napoleon III, Emperor of France.
Maximilian was the youngest brother of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
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The fabrication has been left unchallenged for decades to the point that it has come to be
accepted even by renowned radio-talk show conservative pundits who --or at least their
producers-- are expected to be in the know.

The real truth is that there was no such thing as a great defeat of the French at Puebla by
anybody, as Mexicans in Mexico very well know, but which most Chicanos here in America and
Americans in general have been duped into believing it happened. It was not even a defeat, for
the French simply lifted the siege to Puebla and left to conquer other cities...and then returned
and took Puebla.

That's why in Mexico May 5th is only a day of subdued joy memorializing what in reality was just
a Pyrrhic achievement of the Mexican army at resisting with great losses the siege that merely a
minor fraction of the invading French forces had laid to Puebla.

It has to be stressed that the defenders of Puebla were regulars of the well disciplined, trained
and armed Mexican army under General Ignacio Saragoza, and not the ragged peasants as
widely contended by Cinco de Mayo deceiving promoters here in the U.S.A. It was the same
kind of well disciplined Mexican army that, less than 22 years before, had overrun The Alamo
under the command of Generalísimo Antonio López de Santana.

What in reality happened at Puebla on May 5, 1862 was just that the French troops lifted the
siege to join the rest of the invading army in the pursuit of more valuable targets. After winning
decisive real battles nearby, the French came back in full force a year later to seize Puebla on
May 17, 1863.
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They then took the capital, Mexico City itself, on June 7, 1863, just less than a month after
sweeping Puebla's defenders.

Thereafter, almost everything went downhill for the Mexican patriots...until April 10, 1865, the
very day after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his defeated, badly beaten army
to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. It was then when, just
four days before being murdered, none else than Abraham Lincoln --victorious over the South,
with a well seasoned and powerful 900,000 strong Union army, irked at France's support for
Dixie and outrageous attempts to pool several European countries to intervene militarily in the
Civil War, and invoking the Monroe Doctrine-- sent Napoleon III a stern ultimatum to pull his
troops out of Mexico.

In a message that Secretary of State William Henry Seward conveyed to Napoleon through the
American Consul in Paris, Abe threatened Napoleon with sending, firstly, an expeditionary force
to flush out the French troops from Mexico, and, secondly, sending the U.S. Navy...to sink
France’s Navy ships anchored on the Mexican Atlantic port of Veracruz.

Along with, and to give weight to his warning, Abe also ordered the march of 50,000 troops
under the command of the bellicose General Philip H. Sheridan to the banks of the River
Grande near Laredo, Texas, and issued orders preparing the Navy to sail south to Veracruz. By
Lincoln’s orders, Ulyses Grant commanded Sheridan who was quartered in Baton Rouge:
"Concentrate in all available points in the States an army strong enough to move against the
invaders of Mexico." But even before Sheridan received orders to march towards the border,
Abe had made sure that some help would trickle down to Juárez. Sheridan annotated in one of
the entries to his official logbook "...we continued supplying arms and munitions to Juárez,
sending him as many as 30,000 muskets from Baton Rouge alone."

Napoleon correctly understood that Lincoln meant business; as a token of his compliance with
Abe's ultimatum, Napoleon readily heeded by immediately pulling some small forces throughout
the end of 1865. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, kept the pressure on Napoleon.

Goaded even more convincingly by President Johnson and Secretary Seward in a new stern
written message issued on February 12 of 1866 demanding the complete withdrawal of all
French forces, Napoleon evacuated his troops out of Mexico between June 15 and December
18, 1866. He left behind just a rogue force of about 300 French soldiers and foreign
mercenaries as palace guards of phony emperor Maximilian.

It must be credited however that before the end of the evacuation, the Mexican republican
patriots --armed with guns and ammunition sent by Abe and later by Johnson-- hit very badly
the French forces marching to the ports of embarkation. Those were battles of real significance
in the sense that the French were punished hard. However, at that stage the French troops
were more interested in going back home than in holding ground in Mexican territory.

Among other, there were the great republican battles against and victories over the French at
Santa Isabel, Matamoros and Santa Gertrudis. The May 5, 1862 event of Puebla pales in all
and every sense compared to those three great battles. In reality, Cinco de Mayo is less than a
little blip in the entire story of the French occupation of Mexico.

HOW IT ALL STARTED...AND ENDED

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The whole mess started after Napoleon III failed in his attempts to enroll England and Russia to
intervene along with France in assisting the South in the American Civil War. Taking advantage
of the fact that the Civil War impeded the U.S.A. to enforce the Monroe Doctrine in Mexico --or
anywhere else in the Americas-- Napoleon III schemed along with Great Britain and Spain --
angry unpaid creditors of Mexico's, the three-- the landing of troops on Mexican territory
purportedly in retaliation for uncollectable loans Mexico owed them.

Forces of the three countries landed in Mexico in December, 1861. Mexico's constitutional
president at that time was Benito Juárez, one of the greatest statesmen that the Western
Hemisphere has so far produced, on a par with Washington and Lincoln, a great patriot by
heart, a Zapotec Amerindian by blood and --as his pen-pal, Abraham Lincoln-- a lawyer by
training and a great statesman by the Providence. Physically, they were like the characters in
the movie "Cousins"; Lincoln at 6-foot, 4-inches tall, Juárez, just at 4-foot, 6-inches. But what a
couple giants --fully on a par-- the two were.

The Left tries to portray Juárez as a "progressive". Hogwash!! Another great lie by the Left!

Juárez was a nationalist and a modernizer inspired on American republican constitutional

democracy. There is a big connotation-difference between "progressive" (i.e., leftist) and
modernizer, a term the latter that denotes true overall human progress and not "progress"
toward socialism/communism which is actually a regression of human society to an ant-colony
condition. Juárez harbored a strong aversion and antipathy for socialism, let alone Marxism. He
even sent the army to smash armed uprisings led by Marxist peasants Julio López and Plotino
Rhodakanati in central Mexico in 1868.
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The Juárez administration had been left penniless after the War of the Reform, a civil war that
ran from 1858 through late 1860, aimed at eliminating outrageous abuses of the Mexican
oligarchy and the Catholic Church on the majority of pauper Mexicans.

The Mexican Congress suspended payments of the foreign debt on July 17, 1861.

On October 31 of the same year, France, Great Britain and Spain signed the Treaty of London,
uniting their efforts to obtain payments from Mexico, by force if necessary, thus mounting the
framework behind the military intervention.

Spanish troops stationed in Cuba landed in Veracruz on the 8th of December of 1861. On
January 1, 1862, Lincoln advised Juárez that the U.S.A. could not help Mexico because of the
Civil War. The British fleet arrived in Veracruz on January 6, and the French, on January 8,
1862. The French fleet took the port of Campeche on the 27th of February.

Although Great Britain and Spain went along originally with Napoleon on the occupation of
Veracruz, both the British and the Spanish decided on April 9, 1862, to back off when realizing
that Napoleon had duped them into a territorial expansionist adventure of his own.

Taking advantage of the Civil War in the U.S.A., that is, knowing that Lincoln wouldn’t be able to
enforce the Monroe Doctrine, what Napoleon actually wanted was to make of Mexico a French
colony. Furthermore, if the South showed solid signs of winning the Civil War, Napoleon had
planned that the French troops stationed in Mexico would come in assistance of the
Confederates to consolidate their victory.

The ultimate goal of European monarchists --supported by the Vatican and spearheaded by
Napoleon III, the Emperor of France-- was to break down the great menace that the United
States of America, as a democratic republic, posed to them. Constitutional republicanism and
effective democracy were so contagious that by osmosis, capillarity and emulation could infect
their monarchic autocracies.

Spain and England pulled their troops from Veracruz on April 24, 1862.

With no more support from Britain and Spain for his adventure in Mexico, Napoleon counted
however with the support of collaborationists in the Mexican aristocracy and the Catholic
Church. With Veracruz and Campeche in French hands, he went along with his plans to
conquer Mexico. A force marched on Puebla submitting it to a siege, while the rest of the
French forces marched deep inland.

Puebla --defended by the Mexican army led by General Zaragoza-- proved to be a place hard to
take for the limited French forces under General Lorencez. On the 5th of May the French lifted
the siege. The French then went on taking Orizaba on June 14, Tampico, on October 23, and
Jalapa, on December 23. A French armada bombarded Acapulco to ruins on January 15, 1863.
The French then returned and again laid siege on Puebla on March 16 to take it on May 17, and
then took Mexico City on June 7.

On June 10, the French appointed a "Superior Junta" composed of Mexican monarchists and
Catholic hierarchs. On June 16, the Superior Junta appointed Mexican monarchist General
Antonio Almonte provisional President of Mexico.

Maximilian arrived in Mexico City on June 12, 1862.

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Since April 10, 1864 France's Napoleon III, with the complicity of Mexican monarchist
collaborationists and the Catholic Church hierarchy, had chosen Maximilian as Emperor of
Mexico.

On the 10th of July of 1863, the Superior Junta officially proclaimed the Mexican Catholic
Empire and offered the crown and title of Emperor to Maximilian, who gingerly accepted, duped
by the Mexican collaborationists and Napoleon III.

Republican nationalists supporting Juárez waged a heroic but no more than nagging guerrilla
war against the French occupiers and their collaborators. However, during most of this time of
struggle, Juárez kept in close touch with Abraham Lincoln who couldn't help until he was freed
of the burdens of the Civil War.

By the end of 1866, following the firm ultimatum by Abe to Napoleon, the tens of thousands of
French troops occupying Mexico had been already called back to France except for the 300
who stayed behind as Maximilian's palace guard. Abe, followed by his successor Andrew
Johnson had, at gun point but without firing a shot, successfully expelled the French from
Mexico.

So, once the French troops left Mexico hurriedly --with the tail tucked between their legs,
attentively listening to Abe's soft talk, and out of fear of his big stick-- what continued in Mexico
was actually a civil war in which Mexican republican patriots kept fighting Mexican monarchist
traitorous collaborators. Yes, with the French gone, later battles, larger for that matter, were
exclusively between Mexican republican patriots and Mexican collaborationist traitors; that is,
between good Mexican republicans and bad Mexican monarchists and collaborationists.

The two Mexican bands kept fighting fiercely through the end of 1866 and early 1867.

Finally, on May 15, 1867, in the great Battle of Querétaro, an army of patriots led by Mexican
Generals Mariano Escobedo and Ramón Corona took the city of Querétaro -and Maximilian
himself- thus defeating an army of collaborationists led by Mexican generals Miguel Miramón,
Tomás Mejía and Ramón Méndez. These three generals, like Juárez, were also Zapotec
Indians, and had advanced through the ranks from mere privates to brigadiers. They, together
with Maximilian, were executed on June 19, 1867 at the Cerro de Las Campanas (the Hill of the
Bells).

So, May 5, 1862 (i.e., Cinco de Mayo) really means not too much in Mexican history. And that is
the reason regular Mexicans in Mexico give to the historical date secondary importance. Cinco
de Mayo pales down to sheer insignificance compared to any other event in the Mexican civic
calendar.

The Left, particularly the Democrats, and Chicano and Mexican irredentists, lie through their
teeth about Cinco de Mayo, portraying it for what it is not. And, capitalizing on the phony
festivity, the Obama regime and the Democrats agitated to the brim preparing the political
environment to ram us with blanket amnesty for illegals, for the vast majority of them are
undocumented Mexican working in the U.S.A. By the way, 215ners* --and, in increasing
numbers, regular Americans-- refer to Obama as "The Undocumented Worker in Chief".

*-- 215ners = those who demand from Obama unequivocal and unambiguous proof of full compliance with
"Constitution 215", i.e., Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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Mexicans in Mexico give a very much greater importance to June 19, 1867, the day Maximilian
and his Mexican collaborationist generals were executed; they see it as a day of national
vindication and as a vivid warning to budding usurpers and traitors. (Listen, usurpers and
traitors!!)

The lesson to be drawn from the events of Cerro de Las Campanas is that the sure fate of both
usurpers and collaborators who dare to commit any attempt against Mexican sovereignty is to
end up standing in front of a firing-squad...a good treatment, by the way, to all usurpers and all
those who attempt against the sovereignty of their own countries.

In Mexico, Cerro de Las Campanas means a lot, as it should. As a matter of fact, among
Mexican civic celebrations, the 19th of June is second only to September 16, Independence
Day.

Practically, in Mexico, what here in the U.S.A. is referred to as Cinco de Mayo was no more
than a modest tool in the propaganda arsenal that the infamous PRI --the racketeering clique
that, in the disguise of a political party, ruled Mexico like the mob for 71 long years, from 1929
until 2000-- employed to keep most of Mexicans in perpetual political and moral torpor...and
misery. PRI is the acronym in Spanish for Partido Revolucionario Institutional (Institutional
Revolutionary Party) a bombastic name used to co-opt the domestic Left into participating in the
system...and to participate in the looting of Mexico’s national treasure as well. By the way, the
Soviet Bloc nomenklaturas were mere child-play compared to the Mexican PRI’s. But the
Democrat nomenklatura in the U.S.A. is well on its way to dwarfing the PRI’s.

Much in the same way, leftists and other demagogues in the United States of America, namely
Democrats, have made of Cinco de Mayo one more trick, though a formidable one, to brazenly
dupe unsuspecting Chicanos with misguided pride, and to subliminally nurture among them
ethnic strife in America, based on Mexican nationalistic feelings.

Since the Left has purposely wrecked the K-12 curricula, where at some point in sixth grade or
in high school this episode of the history of the Americas should be studied, Americans don’t
know about all this. And since the vast majority of those who major in History in college are
indoctrinated into Leftism, they keep silent regarding all these Mexican historic events.

So, here we are, with this fabrication of a balkanizing festivity being celebrated by great
numbers of regular Americans, without suspecting that they are being duped big time, much the
same way they are duped every year with Earth Day, which was deceptively created on April
22, 1970 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s birth (April 22 1870 -- January 21 1924)
by leftist Democrat U.S. Senator for Wisconsin Gaylord Nelson. Earth Day is yet another
Democrat infamous trick, this time to disguisedly celebrate Lenin’s birthday.

And that was the real story of Cinco de Mayo: a great fabrication at the service of those who
seek the destruction of America from within; that is, the Left and its main front, the Democrat
Party of nowadays, alongside Chicano and Mexican irredentists. It was Abraham Lincoln and
Andrew Johnson who got the French out of Mexico, and not a victory in Puebla that didn’t
happen.

CHICANOS COULD SOW A PROMISING FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES

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Chicanos should reject being fooled by Cinco de Mayo kind of demagoguery and all derived
anti-Americanism.

They should rather keep and cultivate only positive and constructive Mexican traditions --which
are rich and beautiful-- and then embrace whatever positive and constructive that can be found
in abundance in American traditions and thus become a more active and live part of the great
American Melting Pot.

Chicanos should also stop other nonsense such as pushing for bilingual "education" for the
children of newcomers; bilingual education is a trap that only makes them second class citizens,
and underclass, to be manipulated by the Left, particularly by its main front, the Democrat Party.
Total immersion in English will help those children much more in their quest to procure a future
in America; Spanish should only be learned and practiced as a second language.

They should also stop rallying unconditionally behind the Democrat Party; their absolute
allegiance to the Democrats makes them in America pawns to a type of economic, social and
political manipulation equivalent to the one that the demagogic big-brother and arch-corrupt PRI
inflicted on their parents in Mexico. Bargaining their support for political power and status with
both Democrats and Republicans --or with any other entity in the American political spectrum for
that matter-- as most Americans do, will help Chicanos reach the place they should have in
American politics and in American life, in general.

The only ones in the U.S.A. to gain from keeping Chicanos so intimately tied to Mexico are
those who want to perennially keep under-classes in America, under-classes that they can use
in their morbid thirst for ethnic and class warfare: the Left and its main front, the Democrat
Party.

As for Cinco de Mayo itself, Chicanos should rather transfer the fire in their hearts to celebrating
the 4th of July with great joy, as do Americans of other ancestries regarding festivities, real or
fictitious, in the country of their ancestry, as Hondurans, Italians, British, Danish, Argentineans,
Dutch, Russians, Irish, Latvians, etc do

Chicanos should realize that the 4th of July is not only Independence Day, but also the day
when modern-history democracy was born in the World. Chicanos should acknowledge also
that if it hadn't been for the 4th of July, Abe Lincoln and Andy Johnson wouldn't have been
around to spook away the French out of Mexico.
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Besides, as hard as life may be in the U.S.A. for some Chicanos, at least it isn't as miserable as
it is in Mexico for the 47% of Mexicans who officially live below the poverty line. Such fact is
very eloquently asserted by the hundreds of thousands of destitute Mexican crossing the border
each year, bound for the U.S.A.

America offers hope for substantial advancement if one works hard and intelligently. Attempting
to Mexicanize American politics and society will absolutely take Chicanos nowhere.

Education, even modest, not to mention a high level one, and intelligent, savvy, patriotic political
activism is what will contribute substantially to making a marked difference for Chicanos.

Therefore, instead of lending themselves to being opiated and poisoned by the Cinco de Mayo
demagoguery of the Democrats, who want to keep Chicanos as an underclass to exploit on
election day, and instead of lending themselves also to have their hearts poisoned against
America by the traitorous calls from despicable irredentists, what Chicanos should do is to wake
up to the happy reality that the U.S.A. is their only fatherland.