ETA (separatist group)
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ETA, an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, was an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization active in Spain and France between 1959 and 2018. It was founded in 1959, during Francoist Spain,
ETA members firing blanks during the Day of the Basque Soldier of 2006
A pro-ETA mural in Durango, Biscay
Graffiti in Pasaia (2003). "ETA, the people with you" on the left, and Batasuna using several nationalist symbols asking for "Independence!"
Federico Krutwig, the anarchist theorist of the ETA. He sought to move Basque nationalism away from its ethnic and religious origins.
Luis Carrero Blanco
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Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Prime Minister of Spain.
ETA (separatist group)
…significant assassination performed by ETA during Franco's dictatorship was Operación Ogro, the December 1973 bomb assassination in Madrid of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's chosen successor and president of the government (a position roughly equivalent to being a prime minister). The assassination had been planned…
Luis Carrero Blanco
Carrero at the Gando Airport, Gran Canaria (1947).
Memorial plaque at the place of the assassination of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.