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April 2024

  • Two young people talk animatedly outside next to an EH Bildu sign with white letters on a green background.

    Basque election: leftwing coalition partly descended from Eta leads in polls

    Surveys suggest EH Bildu’s focus on health, housing and employment is attracting younger voters

December 2023

  • Maixabel and Luis photographed at Txitxardin, a bar with a terrace by the river OriaIt. is not the first time they meet there. Maixabel and Luis Luis Carrasco was a member of ETA who killed Maixabel Lasa's husband (politician Juan María Jáuregui) in 2000. Carrasco and Lasa met in 2011 via a government programme of "restorative meetings" between victims and killers. They went on to meet several more times and forge an unlikely bond. Some more info on the story in this El Pais article:

    The Audio Long Read
    Best of 2023: The widow and the murderer: a friendship born of tragedy – podcast

    From October: A decade after Maixabel Lasa’s husband was shot by Basque separatists, she received a message from one of his killers. He wanted to meet her. By Giles Tremlett

October 2023

  • Luis Carrasco and Maixabel Lasa in Lasarte in the Basque Country in Spain. Photograph: Nacho Bueno Gil/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The widow and the murderer: a friendship born of tragedy – podcast

    A decade after Maixabel Lasa’s husband was shot by Basque separatists, she received a message from one of his killers. He wanted to meet her

September 2023

  • Luis Carrasco and Maixabel Lasa in Lasarte in the Basque Country in Spain.

    The long read
    The widow and the murderer: a friendship born of tragedy

    The long read: A decade after Maixabel Lasa’s husband was shot by Basque separatists, she received a message from one of his killers. He wanted to meet her

May 2023

  • The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, right, and his wife, María Begoña Gómez Fernández, cast their votes on Sunday.

    Spain’s conservative opposition heading for emphatic win in regional polls

  • A woman walks past an electoral campaign poster of PP candidate Isabel Diaz Ayuso, in Madrid.

    Rows over Eta and racism loom large as Spain holds local elections

July 2022

  • Protesters in Madrid at Eta’s murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco hold up his picture

    ‘We lost our fear’: the Basque terror group’s killing that made Spain say enough is enough

    The Eta group’s kidnap and murder of a young councillor in 1997 united a country in revulsion and the wounds are still open today

October 2021

  • Arnaldo Otegi

    Basque leader says Eta terror deaths ‘should never have happened’

    Arnaldo Otegi’s statement before 10th anniversary of end of campaign goes further than previous apologies

September 2020

  • Patria.

    This is Europe
    How Spanish writer's novel about Eta terror campaign became global hit

    As HBO series based on Fernando Aramburu’s Patria begins, author says his goal was to document a shared horror

October 2019

  • A demonstration in Barcelona against Catalonia’s independence.

    Separatism and the rule of law in Spain

    Letters: The majority of Spaniards are voiceless in discussions about Catalonia in the English-speaking media, writes León Fernando Del Canto. Arnaldo Otegi is wrong to claim that Spain is repressive, writes Ben Casement-Stoll

September 2019

  • The audiencia nacional court building in Madrid, where 47 people were charged with Eta membership.

    Mass trial of Basque activists in Spain ends with plea deal

    Defendants accused of Eta membership in case alleged by critics to be politically driven

May 2019

  • Josu Ternera

    Fugitive ex-Eta leader Josu Ternera arrested in France

    Basque terrorist group’s former political chief tracked down after 16 years on the run

November 2018

  • Three members of ETA

    Eta admitted to two new attacks in last missive before dissolving

    Basque separatist group claimed it had killed 758 people in excerpts published by mouthpiece newspaper

May 2018

  • eta logo on wall

    Eta’s armed struggle is no more. Now Spain must end its brutality

    Arnaldo Otegi
  • Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister

    Spanish PM says Eta's crimes will not go unpunished

  • Eta logo

    From Eta to the IRA, making peace means talking to the enemy

    Jonathan Powell
  • Anti-Eta protesters hold a banner that reads: ‘For the peace and dialogue’ as they walk through central Bilbao, in the Basque country, in January 2007.

    Basque separatist group Eta announces dissolution

April 2018

  • Masked members of the Basque separatist group Eta raise their fists in a familiar pose during a news conference in 2011

    'We are truly sorry': Eta apologises for four decades of deadly violence

    Basque separatist group bears ‘direct responsibility’ for deaths of at least 800 people in name of nationhood struggle
  • Thousands march in Alsasua against the high court trial.

    Basque bar fight trial tests 10 years of fragile peace in the region

    Spanish high court to rule on whether pub punch-up with off-duty police was drunken scuffle or terror attack
  • Gabriela Ybarra, author of The Dinner Guest

    The first book interview
    Terror hits home: Gabriela Ybarra on the family stories behind her novel

    After her grandfather was assassinated by Basque separatists in 1977, Ybarra’s family never talked about it. Using fiction to fill in the gaps, debut novel The Dinner Guest is up for the Man Booker International prize
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