Saturday is May 5, Cinco de Mayo, when, it seems, everyone abroad remembers Mexico. Best way to remember Mexico is by sipping a margarita, and there are as many versions of margaritas as there are of daisies. One story has it that the first margarita was concocted for Margarita Casino, a dancer from Brooklyn performing in Tijuana. That dancer later came to be known as sultry actress Rita Heyworth. Hussong’s Cantina in Ensenada disputes this as do others. As for Cinco de Mayo, it commemorates the only victory Mexico ever won over a foreign army. That was in 1862, the foreign army was French and the French stayed in Mexico until the end of the American Civil War, after which Washington told Napoleon III to take his army home.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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