Fandango Friday – Cinco de Mayo Celebration!
La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOn Cinco de Mayo, 1862, a feebly armed, heavily outnumbered Mexican army, formed largely by determined indigenous forces carrying machetes and sticks, took it out on the invading forces of Napolean III and his French Empire, and won. In other words -- they RESISTED. Mexico, as a newly independent nation, was barely 41 years old […]