Word: eta
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...single gunman shot the former regional councilman several times from behind, then fled the scene with a waiting driver. Though no claim of responsibility has yet been made, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesperson said the government was "certain" the attack had been carried out by the Basque separatist group ETA. Carrasco's murder would be the third committed by ETA since the organization officially declared an end to a cease-fire it called in March...
...definitive equality between men and women" that would include equitable salaries. For its part, the Popular Party has carried on its longstanding attack on the government for threatening Spain's territorial integrity by granting greater autonomy to regional governments and for negotiating with the Basque separatist group ETA. Rajoy put these concerns front and center in Monday's debate, sharply criticizing Zapatero for "deceiving Spaniards by continuing to negotiate with terrorists" after the December 2006 bombing at Barajas airport that killed two people...
...Catalans the only regional nationalist movement pressing centuries-old linguistic, ethnic and historical claims on the forward-looking government in Madrid. In the Basque country, also endowed with extensive autonomy in the post-Franco era, separatist political sentiment remains ubiquitous, and terrorist actions by ETA continue...
...Prime Minister's efforts have been successful. The violent collapse of peace negotiations with the Basque separatist group ETA is his most notable failure - and one that continues to haunt him. Nonetheless, Spain is a very different place now than it was four years...
...praised Zapatero's accomplishments. But he bluntly criticized the Socialists' failure to position the political debate in a way that helps people grasp why those accomplishments are important. "I covered with President Zapatero all the obvious ways that the PP will attack him," says Lakoff, "from his dealings with ETA, to the economy, to regional autonomy and civil rights. But then I said, 'Look, this campaign is about one thing: do Spaniards want to continue to build a progressive, modern democracy, or do they want to return to the kind of authoritarian regime that the PP wants?' The truth...