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...terrifying display of how a national philosophy of violence manifests itself in all facets of life. Just as the state throws into a labor camp anyone who, like Djata’s father, dares to raise his voice against the regime, the school’s soccer coach, Gica, resorts to violence to get things done. Coach Gica tells his team that “after the game he’d smash everyone’s ankles with a crowbar” if they don’t win the very important upcoming match, “[He] even...
...October, Francisco Múgica Garmendia, ETA's leader during the late 1980s, was one of six imprisoned ETArras who called on their comrades to lay down their arms and join "the institutional and mass struggle" for independence. Not everyone is ready for that; indeed, not even Otegi is. What he advocated in November was broad political talks among all groupings in the Basque Country, while ETA negotiates with the Spanish and French states on disarmament, prisoners and victims of violence. He hasn't mentioned olive branches since this month's bombings. The Socialist government in Madrid has rejected Otegi...
...well below those of their overall work. FRANCE Bonnie and Clyde French police arrested a man and a woman alleged to be military leaders of ETA, the Basque separatist group, in a raid that Spain called a blow "against terrorism." Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi, 35, and Ainhoa Múgica Goñi, 32, were seized at a supermarket in the suburbs of Bordeaux after weeks of police surveillance. Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the couple were carrying arms in their car. Múgica and Olarra are accused of numerous attacks and killings in Spain. Olarra is thought...
...self-described graduate of “beatnik schools,” Schork earned her bachelor’s degree in film studies from the Universidad Tecnológica de Monterrey, Mexico. After working for many years in the travel industry, she decided to plunge into public service and arts education. “I realized I was put on earth to be an artist, not to make money for some schmuck,” she said...
...week's end, the brass was still rumbling noisily. And Frondizi's Foreign Minister Adolfo Múgica. who originally leaked the news of the Frondizi-Guevara téte a téte, was asked to resign...