Cinco de Mayo (or 5th of May) is celebrated, as the name implies, each year on May 5. There are a lot of misconceptions about the day and what it represents, in large part because the celebration has ...

Cinco de Mayo, a day often confused for Mexico’s Independence Day, is next week. To many Americans, the fifth of May is a day for discounted tacos and margaritas and is often punctuated with cheesy, ...

Orozco is a Mexican poet and diplomat. He is the cultural attaché of the Mexican consulate in San Diego and lives in Point Loma. This essay was translated from Spanish by The San Diego Union-Tribune.

When Monday rolls around, there's going to be a celebration. That's how it goes on the Mexican holiday known as Cinco de Mayo, which is Spanish for the fifth of May. The holiday celebrates the day a ...

The United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo. Music, all-day happy hours and deals on tacos are planned at venues across the country on Sunday — May 5 — in a celebration with widely misunderstood ...

Monday is Cinco de Mayo, in Mexico a relatively minor holiday, but in the United States, an excuse to indulge in margaritas, cervezas or beer, guacamole and tacos. But what exactly does Cinco de Mayo ...

Cinco de Mayo is right on the horizon. The Mexican holiday celebrates the day a small Mexican army defeated a much larger French Army in the Battle of Puebla. But over the years, it's also become a ...

Cinco de Mayo is here! To celebrate, we're looking into some common questions people ask about the event, including 'What is Cinco de Mayo?' and 'What's the history of Cinco de Mayo?' and 'Cinco de ...

In a thousand dusty village squares and in the vast Zócalo before Mexico City’s National Palace, crowds danced, skyrockets sizzled. In historic Puebla, where girls pelted his car with flowers as he ...