The president of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad, Driss El Yazami (Fez, 1952), knows well the price of being a human rights activist after experiencing imprisonment and exile in France during the reign of Hassan II. Currently, the institutional weight of his position has not distanced him from the realities of his country, as demonstrated by his advocacy for changes that would make it more democratic. Yazami visited Mallorca to present a study on school enrollment and dropout rates among Moroccan students.

Driss smiles and pauses for a moment in the Palma hair salon where he works while he considers whether to comment on the protests of thousands of young Moroccans in his country. They are demanding improvements in healthcare, education, job creation, and, ultimately, social justice. Decent living conditions. "Of course I understand them. How could I not?" he asks. They organized themselves through social media and digital platforms under the name GenZ212 (the generation to which they belong and the international telephone code for Morocco) to take to the streets of cities like Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir, and Tangier, among others. Driss, 33, understands them because he was one of those disillusioned, frustrated, and angry young people who demanded changes to the system.