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.