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Why is Cinco de Mayo celebrate in the US?

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During Roosevelt's presidency, he began to implement the Good Neighbor Policy (1933) towards several countries in Latin America. Cinco de Mayo began as a cultural festival, quickly turning into a Mexican-American Pride Day, as much as St. Patrick's Day is for Irish-Americans.

Ironically, Cinco de Mayo is not that popular in Mexico: often mistaken as the Mexican Independence Day (September 16 is the actual independence day of Mexico), it marks the date of a significant battle between Mexican and French forces during the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861-1867).

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