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Monday, May 05, 2003

# Posted 12:06 PM by Patrick Belton  

CINCO DE MAYO, PRIMERA PARTE: NYT reports that Hartford, Connecticut now has the greatest percentage of Hispanic residents of any major city north of Florida and east of the Mississippi. While immigration always brings about for any community its particular sets of economic and social challenges, most importantly of all, ¡muchísimos bienvenidos muy cordiales a todos nuestros nuevos vecinos y compadres!"

And this very especially on the Cinco de Mayo - the day when an upstart American republic repulsed at Puebla the undemocratic ambitions of an imperialistic, and French, government. Americans of all nations and languages share important values and democratic traditions - even if at the present moment some governments, such as those in Havana and Caracas, aren't yet as good as their people. Cinco de Mayo reminds us we can never forget the importance of nurturing the hemispheric commercial and political ties which knit us together with our neighbors, and working shoulder to shoulder with them as a hemisphere of democratic American republics which are jointly committed to together promoting democracy, clean and efficient governance, and economic development throughout both our hemisphere and the world.

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