MADRID — Sunday May 15, 2011 was the day Jon Aguirre Such felt the full impact of the new protest movement taking over the Spanish capital.
As a spokesman for what would soon become known as “15-M,” or los indignados, the 26-year-old architecture student from the Basque Country climbed onto the back of a truck and took the microphone. Thousands of people jostled for space in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square, waiting for him to speak.
“That was the moment I thought: ‘We’re making history.’”
Half a decade on, the mild-mannered Aguirre Such has the same clipped black mustache and piercing gaze. For …read more
Source: European Voice
