In Search of the Real “Cinco de Mayo?” Visit Puebla Province.
Celebrated locally in Mexico as The Day of the Battle of Puebla, Cinco de Mayo commemorates May 5, 1862 when an underdog Mexican army defeated the behemoth French military in a small town just outside of Mexico City. It was the middle of the 19th century and France had occupied a near bankrupt Mexico since the end of the Mexican-American War. [Continue Reading…]