Latest developments

I do not have much time but I think there has been some very important developments:

1. ETA, feeling its power after the behaviour of Mr. Zapatero, has now written -again- to French authorities, stating that, “the “Basque Conflict will go on, if France does not recognise Euskal Herría”. According to the communiqué, France imposes “censorship and silence for the conflict not to be known“. They reclaim France also to suspend the “attacks and violations of human rights against Basque citizens and Euskal Herría“.
2. Spanish Vice-President, Fernández de la Vega (you know, “don’t know why they are demonstrating against terrorism, if there is no terrorism in Spain“), has answered that is not realistic to involve other State.
3. And France has answered that “a pacific solution is a matter of Spanish sovereignty” and that “they support Spanish authorities in that process“. France denies there is any French Basque country, whatever the words of the terrorists are. French MSM have said nothing about it. The only reference I have found to Spain in the French Media is this title: “Des Espagnoles se mobilisent pour éradiquer le foootball“. Or Spanish women are mobilizing to end football matches”. Well, I have not heard about them, really… But I doubt that they are going to be succesfull.
4. Also today, the Association of Firms in Navarra has denounced the letters Eta has sent them, asking them for money, after the truce. The Government has said that they had no knowledge these letters had been sent.
5. As a result, PP has answered that dialogue “is not appropriate yet“.
6. In the National Court a very important criminal process is being held: the one against ETA terrorist “Txapote” and his girlfriend (image) accused of kidnapping and killing, among others, Miguel Ángel Blanco, and the PP Ermua Councilman. He is also accused of the murders of José Luis Caso, Councilman in Rentería; PP Cpuncilman, Gregorio Ordóñez; Chief of the Local POlice of San Sebastián, Alfonso Morcillo; of PSOE Councilman Fernando Múgica; of the Spanish Army Brigade Mariano de Juan. He is also accused of the bombings against the military barracks in Loyola and against Txitxarro disco Pub, which was owned by the family of José María Korta, also killed by ETA in 2000. The first day in Court, they quarreled with the Police. In the second day, they had been expelled from the Court Room, because of the lack of respect they have shown to the Tribunal. Yesterday they sat giving their back to the Tribunal.
7. If yesterday Rajoy and Piqué were insulted and slapped, today Acebes has been the object of these aggressions. They have called him fascist and have shouted at him “We are a nation”. To avoid this scenario, PP had changed the place in which the act was going to be held. But the nationalists have found it . In his speech, Acebes has insisited in denouncing the plan that Zapatero, has according to him, that consists in “maintaining a coalition between leftists and nationalists to expell PP from public and political life“. There has been no clear condemnations of these acts from the rest of the political parties. What is more, they have justified them in the “provocative attitudes of PP“. (Must we remind people in the Basque country back in the 80’s justified the murder of people saying “they must have done something to merit that death?”).
8. One of the members of PP in Catalonia, Ángeles Solano, has received an envelope that contained salt and drawing paintign her as target.
9. Aznar, in a conference in FAES titled “World situation: a new geopolitical environment“, alerted about the losing of competitiveness of the Spanish economy which is provoking problems with the rest of the associates of EU. He said he is worried about “some articles that say Spain can be expelled from euro-zone”. He also remarked Spain has a very high inflation and that the public expenditure is going to rise enormously in the next months to come. Here is the summary from FAES.

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Lastly a video I have found here:

NOTE: the music is from the Spanish song of the summer “Opá, yo viazé un corrá” (Daddy, I am going to make a stockyard”), but the music is as if Mr Rodríguez Zapatero would sing it.

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