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Apr 18, 2018

Interview with Arnaldo Otegi

April 30th, 2018. Published by Politico.

GERNIKA, Spain — Arnaldo Otegi, who is widely credited with helping persuade ETA to abandon its four-decade terrorist campaign, says the peace now in place in the Basque Country is irreversible and dismisses as “impossible” the prospect of dissidents breaking it.

“Although it has taken a long time, I’m happy that we’re going to see the end of an armed group in Europe,” said Otegi, leader of EH Bildu, the leftist pro-independence Basque coalition…(See article)

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