Maria Monserrat Colom (Felanitx, 1996), writer, storyteller, ‘professional liar’ and fugitive from a family of tobacconists from Plaça de les Palmeres, was this morning responsible for the now traditional, mythical and vindicative opening speech of the El Cosso society, held every August 28th in the very Felanitx Plaça de l’Arraval.

Neither oxen nor marquis, the free zone of the Quíbia felanitxera is today the territory of San Agustín, a festival that, as in recent years since 1984, has begun early in the morning with the legendary and typical proclamation of the Cosso, the bullfighting club converted to protest and irony since 2003.