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Secretary General
of the United Left-Ezker Batua
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The armed struggle by ETA,
terrorism,
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is a very low-level conflict.
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It's very intense for those
who suffer from it, of course,
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but it's perfectly manageable
and can even be used
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for defending a certain
policy of power.
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The Basque Country, among others,
is useful when looking for an enemy,
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just as general or world terrorism
is useful to Bush.
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Terrorism's emotional capacity
is too great a booty
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for political forces
not to fight over it.
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The suffering of this society
is being used
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to obtain electoral advantage
throughout all of Spain
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by ensuring that people only talk
about the Basque conflict.
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There are parties which don't want
to put an end to the problem.
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With the PP, all its electoral aura
and all its strategy
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revolves around the suffering
caused by ETA
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and how it is tackling
the problem.
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I love coming here
because when I'm in my "txoko"
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I can isolate myself a bit.
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And I do it
for sentimental reasons too
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because I got married here
in Guadalupe.
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Because of the family, we
got married on July 23, last year.
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It was my mother's first visit
to the jail and she cried so much.
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We left the house together.
He went over to his car
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and I went in the opposite
direction, to mine.
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He was conceived
in jail, poor thing.
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I picked up my son to cross the road
and I heard an explosion.
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Ibai was born, strangely enough,
on Constitution Day,
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December 6, last year.
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I'd planned my life with Montxo.
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So, in that sense,
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they've taken
all my plans away from me.