Word: cinco
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Today is the sixth and last day of the Cinco de Mayo celebration sponsored by the Mexican-American student group RAZA, commemorating one victory the Mexicans won against the French during Maximilian's war to annex Mexico, RAZA members said...
...Cinco de Mayo symbolizes the emergence of the Mexicans as a people, said Candelario Saenz, a visting scholar in social anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. The Quincy House affiliate said that "the notion that Mexico belongs to the Mexicans... was forged" on Mexican independence day, Diez y Seis de Septiembre, and Cinco de Mayo, which commemorates the 1862 Battle of Puebla...
...Mexico, it's a really big deal--carnivals and shows, firecrackers--like the Fourth of July," said Hilda M. Alexander '90, president of RAZA. But "a lot of Mexican-Americans don't even know Cinco de Mayo is not independence day," said Alexander, who emigrated to the U.S. when she was 10 years...
Ovalle said the celebration of Cinco de Mayo will be very similar to traditional celebrations in Mexico. "We still maintain the cultural thread," Ovalle said...
This year's Cinco de Mayo celebration is thebiggest ever at Harvard, Ovalle said, and hasincluded members of the community and a pinata forthe children. Also, the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, Cornell and Wilson Universities aresending people to participate in the programs, hesaid...