AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Cinco de Mayo festivities are taking place across the U.S. with music, tacos, tequila and colorful displays of Mexican culture — even if they're not always the most authentic.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Today is Cinco de Mayo, the day that commemorates the Mexican Army's victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla back on May 5th, 1862. The holiday is celebrated ...

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Despite being outnumbered, General Ignacio Zaragoza led his troops to ...

Cinco de Mayo is a holiday observed on May 5 that commemorates the Mexican army's victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It is not Mexico's Independence Day, which actually ...

with participants dressed in historical French and Mexican army uniforms.

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An outnumbered Mexican army — led by Ignacio Zaragoza, a 33-year-old Texan from Goliad — defeated the invading French forces at the small town of Puebla de Los Angeles during the Franco-Mexico ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Vincent Ramirez's shirt expresses his thoughts as he watches a Cinco de Mayo parade in the Oak Cliff section ...