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...people had gathered to reorganize their political party in Segura, a quaint medieval town in the highlands of Spain's Basque country. And then the police swept in, virtually besieging the town for several hours. In the end, the government arrested all 23 as members of the directorate of Batasuna, the political arm of ETA, the armed group that seeks to separate the Basque provinces from the Kingdom of Spain. The action against Batasuna was ordered by Judge Baltasar Garzon who is investigating the links between ETA and Batasuna. It was those same allegedly links that got Batasuna banned...
Contrary to July weather tradition, San Sebastian awoke last Thursday to a cloudy sky. Still, many Basques - and Spaniards - may have greeted the day as one of bright hope, as leaders of the Basque Socialist Party, the local branch of Spain's ruling Socialist Party, and Batasuna, an illegal party traditionally considered the political wing of the violent separatist group ETA, met at a local hotel to discuss a scenario for ending more than 30 years of conflict that had cost almost 1,000 lives. For most people in this resort town on the Bay of Biscay, these talks represent...
...Rodríguez Zapatero's ruling Socialists and Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party (PP), spit and scream over everything from Franco's legacy to gay rights; last week the PP broke off all relations with the government to protest what Rajoy called its "ignominious" dealings with the banned Batasuna party to negotiate an end to the Basque separatist terrorist group eta. But economic policy is one area where the idea of the "two Spains" has little grip. That is due in large part to Spain's abiding ardor for the European Union. "Everybody in Spain agrees that we have...
...long been anathema to Spanish governments. But Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems prepared to bite the bullet this time. The Spanish Congress last week passed a resolution giving the government authority to negotiate with eta - if it lays down its arms. Batasuna, the banned political party close to eta, welcomed the move. "We think it's a step in the right direction," says Arnaldo Otegi, Batasuna's spokesman. The opposition Popular Party (PP) and victims' groups are livid, accusing Zapatero of providing eta with what María San Gil, the PP's leader...
...SPAIN Does the Basque terrorist group ETA really want peace talks? Last week ETA detonated a car bomb outside a Madrid convention center hours before the opening of ARCO, Spain's international contemporary art fair. The bomb, which injured 43, was the third since Arnaldo Otegi, leader of the Batasuna party - ETA's political wing - indicated a willingness to talk to Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's government. In January Otegi had offered the group's support if Zapatero opted to become "the Spanish Tony Blair," a reference to the British PM's efforts to secure...