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Assassination Week #1: How ETA Launched Spain's First Astronaut

It Could Happen Here

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Is Spain Transitioning to Democracy?

i think it's problematic that folks talk about spain as fixed, like spain has some dark ship that it needs to process. Spain is still processing the fact that the catholic church took babies away from people who it considered to be left and gave them to people more appropriate to raise them. In barselona, they killed 21 people. They also alerted a newspaper in catalonia beforehand. Reporters without borders classified spain as a place that was hostile to journalists because of the attacks on journalists by eta. The state would move basque prisoners out of the basque homeland. It does seem deeply inhumane to move these people so far away from their families. Ait

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