La experiencia de San Salvador Atenco, en el Estado de México, ha marcado ya una década de las resistencias populares y su huella no cesa. De la oposición exitosa a un aeropuerto que hubiera aniquilado las fértiles tierras del valle de Texcoco, los atenquenses pasaron a la brutal represión en mayo de 2006, en la que tuvo responsabilidad protagónica el entonces gobernador Enrique Peña Nieto. Luego los compañeros presos con inverosímiles condenas y la lucha por su liberación. Y siempre, la defensa del agua, el suelo, la vida de un pueblo al que Trinidad Ramírez honra con su voz, su perseverancia y su valentía. La herida se mantiene abierta, como abiertas se mantienen las páginas de la Historia para este pueblo ejemplar.

Con apenas 16 minutos de duración, “La herida se mantiene abierta” es una síntesis de todos estos años de ejemplar lucha que ha sumado triunfos importantes: derogaron el decreto expropiatorio de sus tierras para la construcción de un aeropuerto, sacaron a sus presos de la cárcel vía ordenamiento de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, lograron relacionarse con otras luchas, sin dejar de anunciarnos a todos la importancia de su protesta, y con Trini a la cabeza, enfrentaron a Peña Nieto con razón y verdad. No es poca cosa en el México actual.
The experience of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico, has left a sign in the popular resistance movements of the last decade and the trace continues. After the successful opposition to the construction of an airport, that would had annihilated the fertile soils of the valley of Texcoco, the people from Atenco were confronted to police brutality on May 2006, the responsible of that repression was the former governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. Then their comrades had to face unbelievable prison sentences and the struggle for their liberation. And without a break, the defense of water, soil and the life of the people and their home town to whom Trinidad Ramírez honors with her voice, her perseverance and her courage. The wound remains open, as are also open the pages of History for this exemplary people.

In only 16 minutes “The wound remains open” synthesizes an exemplary struggle of this last years, a struggle that has added up important triumphs: they revoked the decree that was meant to expropriate their lands in order to construct an airport; they achieved the liberation of their prisoners through a writ of mandamus of the Supreme Court of Justice; they related their struggle to other struggles always declaring the importance of their protest with Trini at the head of it they confronted Peña Nieto with profound convictions and with the truth. This is quite an achievement in Mexican actual times.