Profits from terror: the Basque Country case

Abstract

The problem concerning living together in vasque society is only an artificial issue. A confrontation has never existed between two communities in the Vasque Country. The violence of ETA is, at least, sample and out of place: if it is true that ETA's origin can be localized in fighting against Franco dictatorship, it is also that the most of its terrorist activity has been made in democracy times. The nationalist expectations were fully inserted in the Statute of Autonomy, along with the different signs of identity which PNV makes aware: a flag, a national anthem and the name for the Country. Indeed, some mass media were given to the vasque Government, and the linguistic coexistence between Spanish and Vasque languages was stablished. The vasque terrorism, consequently, has simple and differential features, because the Vasque Country is the unique democracy all over the world in which the people attacked are the ones governed, but never those who governs.