Thu 5 May 2005
Welcome to the Si Se Puede, Cinco de Mayo Edition de los Chronicles de la Chicanita Trying to Make it.
This time we find our heroine in cyberspace. After much resistance, a new star is born on the blog scene. Yes, dear subscribers, la chicanita invites you to check out her new blog at: cihuatl.com/chicanita
I am still working out the qinks so please be patient.
Cihuatl Citlali is the nahuatl phrase for mujer estrella. Many of you will remember from the 2001 Issue: Mexico DF that our chicanita related the legend of Quetzalcoatl (the plumed serpent) who was drugged by Tezcatlipoca, his otro yo (mirror image). Subsequently, he rapped a women in his drug induced madness and was exiled to Veracruz, where he tore out his heart and set it on fire. Being pure of corazón, it rose to the sky and became the brightest star of all. Quetzalcoalt’s corazón became Venus, better known as el Lucero de la Mañana. For that reason I call my blog Cihuatl Citlali.
In this issue, we celebrate 5 de Mayo. These DCers are crazy to celebrate Mexican Independence Day on 5 de Mayo. Chale. Remember homies, el 16 de Septiembre is Mexican Independence Day and 5 de Mayo commemorates la Batalla de Puebla in 1862, where Ignacio Zaragoza led a smaller and ill equipped army against Napolean’s French military. At the peak of the French Empire, a band of underestimated Mexicans made the French retreat, only to come back months later to take over the country and install Archduke Maximilian and Carlota for several years. But the battle is a regular David vs. Goliath victory. As the 1997 Cinco de Mayo Queen de Willow Glen High School, I felt it was my duty to regulate the info.
Suerte to you all in your personal endeavors!
In peace and solidarity,
Lucero