ETA To End Ceasefire

Steven Taylor | Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Via the BBC: Eta to end ceasefire with Spain

The Basque separatist group Eta says its ceasefire with the Spanish government will end at midnight.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero condemned Eta’s move.

“Eta’s decision goes totally in the opposite direction of the path that Basque and Spanish society want, the path of peace,” he said.

Eta declared a “permanent” ceasefire in March 2006, and had insisted it still held despite a bomb that killed two people at Madrid airport in December.

Interesting, as I had at one point thought that 9/11 and the 7/11 Madrid bombing might have taken the political viability out of political violence for ETA.

About the Author: Steven is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Troy University in Alabama. He is the author of the book Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia, forthcoming from University of New England Press and the contributing editor on Colombia to the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies. He has his PhD from the University of Texas in Austin and a BA from the University of California at Irvine. He does most of his blogging at PoliBlog, which he started in February 2003.

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