La Pelota vasca. La piel contra la piedra
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which led officers
to attempt a coup.

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The political-military wing
of ETA then announced

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that it was giving up
the armed struggle

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to avoid provoking
any further coups.

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The children of this land
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will not know
the sound of gunfire.

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They will not know
the effects of bombs.

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Very intelligently,
at that time or soon after,

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the Spanish government
offered reinsertion

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to the young Basques
who had taken refuge in France.

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From the second half of the 80s,
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ETA's decline was
particularly noticeable.

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Among other things, it was
gradually losing popular support

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and finding it more difficult
to recruit new militants.

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A considerable number
of people in the south of France

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discreetly accepted
the Spanish offer of reinsertion.

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ETA had to stop this trend,
possibly for the same reasons,

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and assassinated
Maria Dolores Katarain, "Yoyes",

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in the center of Ordizia,
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in order to stop that flow of people
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who were accepting reinsertion.
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EUSKADI FOR PEACE
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Relatives of ETA prisoners
traveling to the prison in Huelva.

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You leave Friday night for Huelva,
come back Sunday morning,

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and then face a week of work
without having had a rest.


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