Cinco de Mayo

My Spanish teacher is from Mexico, and she first introduced me to Cinco de Mayo celebrations two years ago with her enthusiastic description of fiesta activities from her youth.
Over the last many weeks we have seen a closed down Mexico, struggling with Swine flu challenges and decreased activities of crowd participation - also reaching to some parts of the USA.At last some newspaper reports are appearing that the situation is not as dire as in their previous writings. Just in time to save Cinco de Mayo? We can hope.
To Mexicans and their friends everywhere - a Happy Cinco de Mayo.