Hanging a banner more than three meters high in a public building is not a simple task. Not even with the total absence of police presence, as happened last Wednesday in the center of Bilbao, when Sortu (EH Bildu matrix party … and heir to Batasuna) placed a several -meter sign in the foreigner office. An “activist action”, announced on the agenda of the day, which had to deal with the unexpected appearance of the ventolera. Two women climbed an extensible staircase to the balcony of this headquarters of the Ministry of Territorial Policy when the air rose, so the subsequent deployment of the poster became distressing at times. Dominated the canvas, message in sight: «Euskal Herria needs sovereignty. Rights for all people!
The ‘performance’ tried to be a “complaint against the racist laws of Spain and France”, prior to a mobilization held this Friday in Bilbao for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. A few meters away, they were going up to a small platform of Ecuador, Bolivia, the Western Sahara or Palestine to tell “their experiences and discrimination” suffered. In front of them, Ohiana San Vicente, a member of the National Council of Sortu, gave a small press conference. «These laws encourage the violation of the rights and helplessness of the people who come from abroad to develop their life project to Euskal Herria. The Foreigners Law forces migrants to undergo exploitation and abuse circuits, ”he said with little enthusiasm and without accepting questions.
San Vicente, without being exception in the direction of EH Bildu, He is a declared member of ETA. Before being councilor of Euskal Herritarrok (then Herri Batasuna and Sortu) He was responsible for Jarrai or Segiorganizations that, as described thoroughly the book ‘The backyard of ETA’ (Almuzara), served as logistical, financial and regeneration support of the band’s cadres, keys to their framework and criminal activity. «Beyond ethical or moral valuations, ETA never ceased to be from the people, because he always thought about him, I fight for him. We did so each and every one of the people who at some point in their history are part of this organization », there is a text in the digital portal ‘Hala Bedi’.
Before turning to the “anti -racist” struggle, he was among the most sought after by the National Police and was arrested in 2020 as responsible for organizing the ‘NGOs Etrorris’ since 2016 to the prisoners of the terrorist band. The Prosecutor’s Office claimed in April last year a penalty for her five years and seven months in prison after setting up more than 100 tributes to Etarras. Legalized Sortu in 2012, now leads all the causes that unite the “radical left” internationally. Something that “is not new,” but that would have become a priority after achieving all its objectives in relation to ETA prisoners, according to the professor of contemporary history of the Rey Juan Carlos José Manuel Azcona University.
“His goal is to swell the political spectrum to keep the Basque administration,” he explains. The message ‘rights for all’ is “simple”, and would serve the desire to turn Basques into a sector of the population constantly growing due to the migratory phenomenon. Arnaldo Otegi, San Vicente’s partner, claimed an “Basque inclusive model” this week, commenting on the assignment of the PSOE to Junts per Catalunya of migratory competences. Issue that he valued as positive for “sovereignist” and that he called to pursue pointing to the PNV and the Basque Government.
From words to facts
The defense of the “multicultural” society is a constant in the speech of the Basque independence left, united to another series of causes with Marxist background (ideological corpus of ETA) such as anti -rule, where the class struggle now focuses on abstract elements such as specific groups of specific groups, after abandoning material causes. However, EH Bildu, who governs in more than one hundred municipalities, has already been given from Bruces with the complexity involved in his proposals when they move from political rhetoric to reality. Paradigmatic case is the town of Sopuerta (Vizcaya), where the most voted list being the Otegi party saw how half of its mayor gave up protests among the population when a minors center opened there. This forced them last year to seek replacement candidates outside the municipality, as reported by ‘El Correo’.
In spite of everything, the reality is that today they are former members of ETA who try to electorally exploit the racial issue in the Basque Country, starring most mobilizations. Thus, they accuse the media and parties of the “right” of trying to divide “his people” based on “culture and origin.” His goal, summarized by San Vicente herself, is clear: «Instead of looking where we come from, we should think where we want to go. Euskal Herria free and anti -racist ». The first thing is first.
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