Sunday, May 21, 2006

"AFTER THE 'TRUCE': A Basque Story"; Trans-Atlantic Intelligencer points to an article in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung quite skeptical on ETA's ceasfire. One bit:
In 1980, Baglietto was shot by a young ETA terrorist whose life he had saved as an infant. This did not prevent Cándido Aspiazu from dropping death-threats in Baglietto's mailbox, following him in an automobile and killing him on a country road…. As astonishing as the case itself, is its chilling aftermath. For last year, Aspiazu, having been released from prison after serving his sentence, opened a glassware store on the ground floor of the same building in which Baglietto's widow, María Pilar Elías, lives. Since then, the widow and the murderer undoubtedly cross paths in the front hall.
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