Passage to Empowerment - Celebrating Cinco de Mayo

Brenda, Lydia, Mel and NIna are going to celebrate the day by sharing some drink and food reipes. Join us and help us celebrate with some of your own ideas for the celebrations.  Another reason to celebrate is always welcome and we are hoping youwill join us to celebrate everyday not just on special occasions. Let's get this party of life started.

A brief discription of Cinco de Mayo

It is a celebration held on May 5th. It is celebrated in the United States and in Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla where the hokiday is calle El Dia de la Batalla dePuebla (English: The day of the battle of Puebla).. Mexican Americans also often see the day as a source of pride one way they can honor their ethnicity is to celebrate this day.

The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over the French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguin. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day - the most important national holiday in Mexico- which is celebrated on September 16.