"I don't think we will ever experience such beautiful days again," A. told us about the 2006 insurrection, just a few minutes after meeting us, when he received us at his home in Oaxaca (Mexico).

In mid-2006, the annual protest of the teachers in the state of Oaxaca channeled —via Radio Plantón— the discontent of the community in the face of the existing state of affairs: they went from demanding the resignation of the governor to putting on the table each and every one of the of the injustices and abuses of power that were accumulating.

For more than six months the city of Oaxaca rose up against an unjust government, and also refused to organize a new one. The people, articulated in assemblies, expressed themselves clearly: they took the floor and the media, organized protest marches and erected barricades to stop attacks by military and paramilitary groups, burned official buildings and waged pitched battles in which they managed to expel to the police.

Fernando Lobo —an eyewitness of what is considered the first Latin American insurrection of the 21st century— gives us an account, in this wonderful day-to-day book —almost minute by minute— of what happened during those months, of the actions, doubts , desires and responses of a people that for many of us is a beacon.

[...] And in that, the book we now have in our hands is a gift, it is an act of literary resistance against repression, against death squads. Lobo tells us the facts, gives us the political and historical context to enter the chronicle, narrates us and thus denounces the violence of the State, but also —and that, believe it or not, is more difficult to find— he shares with us the moments of wonder, laughter, amazement and beauty of the popular struggle of the peoples of Oaxaca. He also gives us a lot to ponder and talk about. What is the crowd? How does it settle? How is it mobilized? What are you doing? What is the difference between the people and the citizenry? What does the fact that the insurgents appealed to the people and the counterinsurgents to the citizenry tell us? What is courage when you are being shot at? [...]