{"id":75778,"date":"2020-05-05T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-the-birthplace-of-cinco-de-mayo-celebrates-its-50th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2020-05-05T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:36:04","slug":"el-lugar-de-nacimiento-del-cinco-de-mayo-celebra-sus-50-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-lugar-de-nacimiento-del-cinco-de-mayo-celebra-sus-50-anos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birthplace of Cinco de Mayo Celebrates its 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p\/>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">PUEBLO, Colorado<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 4, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The Pueblo Colorado Cinco de Mayo Planning Committee\u00a0is reporting that while COVID-19 has put on a damper on most activities, <span class=\"xn-location\">Pueblo Colorado<\/span> is still the place to be on Cinco de Mayo.\u00a0This year will mark the city&#8217;s 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the celebration.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<\/i><i>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festivities in Bessemer Park have been put on hold,&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0stated <span class=\"xn-person\">Rita J. Martinez<\/span>, chairwoman of the Cinco de Mayo Planning Committee.\u00a0<i>&#8220;<\/i><i>What didn&#8217;t get cancelled is the determination of Cinco de Mayo Planning Committee members to mark the holiday in some significant ways<\/i><i>. <\/i><i>We l<\/i><i>ooked for activities we could do and comply with social distancing directives<\/i><i>.<\/i><i>&#8220;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Those activities will include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>A two-hour live-stream tribute to El Cinco on Facebook<br \/><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2794644-1&amp;h=3222841563&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fchicanopueblo%2F&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fchicanopueblo%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chicanopueblo\/<\/a>\u00a0will go live\u00a0at noon\u00a0on <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 5th<\/span>. (MDT). The programing will include video and photos from previous Cinco celebrations, and interviews with individuals talking about their involvement with the holiday. <\/li>\n<li><b>The Cinco de Mayo Cruise<br \/><\/b>In one of the most anticipated and visible activities to the <span class=\"xn-location\">Pueblo<\/span> community, at least two dozen cars, including a few lowriders, will caravan through <span class=\"xn-location\">Pueblo<\/span> on the afternoon of <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 5th<\/span>. They will be decorated with numerous signs like, &#8220;Cinco de Mayo Pride,&#8221; and &#8220;Viva El Cinco de Mayo.&#8221; Other signs will thank essential workers and honor families impacted by COVID-19. Some of the destinations of the Cruise are the city&#8217;s nursing homes, hospitals and other places that employ essential workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>&#8220;There is tragedy all around us and we want to recognize that,&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0Martinez said. <i>&#8220;<\/i><i>But<\/i><i>\u00a0we also want to make it known that this our 50th Cinco and <\/i><i>we will <\/i><i>celebrate.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>El <span class=\"xn-location\">Cinco de Mayo<\/span> has a long history in <span class=\"xn-location\">Pueblo<\/span>. It began in 1970 with a parade through downtown and a festival in Mineral Palace Park. That year, Chicano activist Rodolfo &#8220;Corky&#8221; Gonzales of <span class=\"xn-location\">Denver<\/span> was the keynote speaker.\u00a0Parade entries came from a broad spectrum of Pueblo Latino organizations including Brown Berets, La Gente, Mexican American Development Association, American G.I. Forum and the Pride City Baton Corps. In the years following, El Cinco was embraced by the Chicano Movement \u2014 a civil rights movement.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;As a Chicano that grew up in Pueblo East Side, the <span class=\"xn-location\">Cinco de Mayo<\/span> celebration has been for me a place where the community warrior was honored and celebrated. For 50 years our <span class=\"xn-location\">Cinco de Mayo<\/span> has been a sober event and does not take any kind of sponsorship that diminished our integrity,&#8221; <\/i>said community activist Reddog.<\/p>\n<p>The event was initially\u00a0inspired by the history of the <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 5<\/span> battle at <span class=\"xn-location\">Puebla, Mexico<\/span>, where a poorly equipped Mexican army under Gen. <span class=\"xn-location\">Ignacio Zaragoza<\/span> defeated Napoleon III&#8217;s elite French army. That\u00a0victory\u00a0proved pivotal to the U.S. Civil War as the French were allied with the Confederacy\u00a0and it prevented the French from\u00a0rendering\u00a0military support to the South.<\/p>\n<p>Another associated public event originally scheduled to take place at this time will be rescheduled to later in the year.\u00a0The Cinco de Mayo Youth Leadership Conference planned for the <span class=\"xn-org\">Colorado State University-Pueblo<\/span> campus\u00a0is being rescheduled for September. It is expected\u00a0to\u00a0bring 350 high school-age youths to the campus to learn about their mixed Chicano\/Indio heritage, politics and the need for Chicano studies in our high schools.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;M<\/i><i>any past participants in the conferences we had 10 and 20 years ago are now college graduates and professional in their fields<\/i><i>,&#8221; <\/i>stated\u00a0Velia Rincon, PhD.\u00a0<i>&#8220;We were taught to self-advocate, organize, and create change. Everywhere we were made to feel that we did not belong, we unapologetically carved out our own space.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For additional information, contact <span class=\"xn-person\">Rita J. Martinez<\/span>, Chairwoman, Cinco de Mayo Planning Committee\u00a0at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"callto:(719)%20994-4459\" rel=\"nofollow\">(719) 994-4459<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <span class=\"xn-person\">Rita Martinez\u00a0<\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"callto:(719)%20994-4459\" rel=\"nofollow\">(719) 994-4459<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Pueblo Colorado Cinco de Mayo Planning Committee<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p \/>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">PUEBLO, Colorado<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 4, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The Pueblo Colorado Cinco de Mayo Planning Committee\u00a0is reporting that while COVID-19 has put on a damper on most activities, <span class=\"xn-location\">Pueblo Colorado<\/span> is still the place to be on Cinco de Mayo.\u00a0This year will mark the city&#8217;s 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the celebration.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;<\/i><i>Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festivities in Bessemer Park have been put on hold,&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0stated &lt;span&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}