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...generation ago, San Sebastián de los Reyes was a sleepy bedroom community of 27,000 people at the northern tip of greater Madrid. The high point of the local calendar was the traditional festival of Cristo de los Remedios in late August, when residents celebrated with fireworks, bullfights and bull running. The rest of the year, the demands of the town's residents were relatively simple: clean streets, regular garbage pickup and an early bus down Burgos Road to Madrid, where the jobs were. These days, San Sebastián de los Reyes refers to itself as Sanse...
...Golden Shoe award, perhaps the greatest achievement for a novillero. This year he is again poised to rank near the top before becoming a fully fledged torero in the fall. This Saturday, he faces his rival, Cayetano, a fellow novillero who won 88 trophies last year, in San Sebastián. Cayetano, unlike his challenger, is a purebred torero: his grandfather, Antonio Ordoñez, was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and his uncle, father, and brother are all bullfighting legends. It will be an important fight, says Leal, because of their contrasting backgrounds. "Cayetano...
...nationalist group Aralar and a former defense lawyer for ETA prisoners. But Batasuna refuses to criticize its armed brethren. The attack "responds to the perverse logic of this conflict and it shows that a solution is needed," says Pernando Barrena, a Batasuna spokesman. Alberto Surio, political commentator at San Sebastián's daily El Diario Vasco, says the attacks show that the terrorists "want to negotiate from a position of strength, to establish their own conditions." But bombs, alas, won't lead to negotiations; that would really be perverse logic...
Last month, the talk was of peace. Arnaldo Otegi, leader of Batasuna, the banned political party linked to the Basque terrorist group ETA, told a crowd of 15,000 at a velodrome in San Sebastián in the Basque Country: "[We] stand with an olive branch in our hand." Otegi, who has never condemned ETA's violence, was cheered as he declared it was time to "pluck the conflict out of the streets and bring it to the negotiating table." But this month, the news was of terror. ETA claimed responsibility for five small bombs that went...
...bombings were meant to scupper talks. Rather, they were a way of keeping the radical base loyal while inching toward negotiations. "I'm convinced that ETA and Batasuna are in agreement over the proposal made [by Otegi]," says Alberto Surio, a political commentator at El Diario Vasco, a San Sebastián-based daily. "But it's a process that's going to take longer than we want. The boat is moving, but the boat is very heavy." Batasuna would like to have its political ban lifted in time to participate in regional elections in May. For that to happen...