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ETA CREATION
ETA was born in Bilbao on July 31, 1959. The labor and national repression in the Basque Country produced the birth of an organization called Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, "Basque Country and Freedom", which emerged from a group of young Basques who considered the nationalism of the PNV stagnant and advocated a strategy of "direct action". » and act as a Basque resistance movement https://youtu.be/gcLZ8cN91Yk -
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ETA
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna was a Basque nationalist terrorist organization that proclaimed itself pro-independence, abertzale, socialist and revolutionary. https://youtu.be/LprC5DU59TU -
FIRST ASSEMBLY
Its first assembly is celebrated, in which it is defined as a "revolutionary clandestine organization". -
FIRST MURDER
On June 7, 1968, the first murder by the terrorist organization ETA took place. The Civil Guard José Antonio Pardines Arcay, a motorcyclist of the San Sebastián Traffic Detachment, was killed on the local road from Aduna to Villabona. https://youtu.be/Gltg-A6SFjU -
BURGOS PROCESS
Police operations almost neutralized the gang in 1969. In December 1970, 16 ETA members were sentenced to death in the Burgos Process. https://youtu.be/e7YE2rDinFw -
CARRERO BLANCO
On December 20, 1973, the President of the Government, Admiral Carrero Blanco, leaves the church and gets into the official Dodge to go to his office. Passing by the number 104 of Claudio Coello street, the car jumps into the air, literally flying over the building and falling into the courtyard of the same block. https://youtu.be/4K_ayH1aVws -
1 DEATH EVERY 60 HOURS
ETA consolidates himself as a guerrilla, buying arms from the USSR, he begins to leak in the media and commit attacks. The armed band created a indiscriminate terror between de citizans. 1980 was the bloodiest year: half of the 91 victims were civilians. https://youtu.be/scDrctFxFP0 -
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AUTONOMY TO THE BASQUE COUNTRY
The Spanish government gives autonomy to the Basque Country, being able to choose its own president, although he has to report to the central power of Spain, despite this benefit, they have not stopped insisting on their total independence. -
DOLORES GONZALEZ
ETA is divided, between THE VIOLENT RADIACALS and the MODERATE ones who thought that the best way to get the attention of society was by giving blows of opinion. At this time the government gave them the opportunity to demobilize, this doesn’t worked, when the case of Dolores Gonzales was known, who was murdered after having demobilized, so they all turned to the method of resistance violence and fighting for independence, freedom and justice. -
AJURIA ENEA Y ARGEL
The Madrid Pact is signed in the Congress of Deputies, where all the political forces of the Basque Parliament except HB support the Pact of Ajuria Enea. The band offers a unilateral truce before the start of negotiations with the government and the talks in Algiers begin. https://youtu.be/EytHqF-l7PY -
THE LONGEST KIDNAPPING
ETA kidnaps prison official José Antonio Ortega Lara in Burgos. After a captivity of 532 days, the longest in the history of the gang, the Civil Guard put an end to his kidnapping and arrested his four captors. https://youtu.be/ayaZ5zkQbp0 -
KIDNAPPING OF MIGUEL ANGEL BLANCO
ETA kidnaps the PP councilor in Ermua, Miguel Ángel Blanco. The organization asks, in exchange for their release, that the 460 members of the terrorist organization who were in prisons scattered throughout Spain return to the Basque Country. When the request was not accepted and the term expired, the councilor was assassinated. Millions of people take to the streets in protest and the so-called Spirit of Ermua was born. -
THE TRUCE
ETA announces a truce that ends in 14 months, when the PP government refuses to negotiate on the independence of Euskadi. Batasuna is renamed Euskal Herritarrok to stand in the October elections and France arrests Javier Arizkuren, Kantauri, which facilitates access to the ETA leadership of García Gaztelu and other terrorists. In November 1999, Aznar informs the King that ETA has put an end to the truce. -
THE RETURN AFTER A YEAR
131 activists were detained. tThe ETA leadership was disrupted and those most responsible for its logistics. The gang didn’t commit an attack since May 2003. In 2004 it carried out 22 attacks, mainly with low explosive devices. -
THE RETURN
131 activists were detained, the ETA leadership was disrupted and those most responsible for its logistics. The gang didn’t commit an attack since May 2003. In 2004 it carried out 22 attacks, mainly with low explosive devices. -
BATASUNA TERRORIST PARTY
The President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, demands that ETA cease the violence in order to "listen" to Batasuna. The Executive affirms that it is waiting for a statement announcing of terrorism. On January 18, ETA exploded a car bomb in Bizkaia, Getxo, injuring an ertzaina -
THE LAST MOVEMENT
ETA announces the cessation of "offensive armed actions", which is extended in January 2011 to a "permanent, general and verifiable" ceasefire. International mediation, a mechanism demanded by the nationalist left and that the central and Basque governments do not recognize, the manifestos of the group of prisoners of the gang and the movements of the nationalist environment, support the rumors that the end of the terrorist activity is near from the band. https://youtu.be/blK8z_gpvpQ -
THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE END
ETA announces what had been assumed. The terrorist group announces that it definitively leaves the armed struggle. In a statement and a video sent to the newspaper 'Gara', three members of ETA set out their "clear, firm and definitive commitment" to "overcome the armed confrontation". The hooded men make "a call to the governments of Spain and France to open a process of direct dialogue" aimed at solving "the consequences of the conflict", but they do not refer to the dissolution of ETA.