Our beloved Pitu Cunillera Gustems (1938-2026), shoemaker and activist from the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona, ​​has passed away. You left without receiving a proper tribute. You, who were the driving force that brought together the residents of what was then Barcelona's Fifth District. El Chino. El Raval. And who, after several attempts thwarted by the local government, founded the Fifth District Residents' Association in 1973, which was approved a year later. A curious association: first the children and the elderly. And of course, there had to be a Fun Committee, because for decades street parties had been what maintained solidarity and morale.

Goodbye, mother of the world, of your students when you were a half-rebellious teacher in the great schools of the Teresian nuns, mother of the AIDS patients behind Sister Genoveva, mother of the whores and the junkies of the Raval when you followed the endless brother and the one from the Sant Pau house, and of the hundreds or thousands of abandoned and endless people from the Field Hospital, of the people who needed support.