La sociedad vasca ante el terrorismo. Las ventanas cerradas (1977-2011)

Abstract

The article focuses on the much debated question of the social reaction to ETA in the Basque Country and the support that society gave to the victims. In this respect different periods can be distinguished: from a long, first stage in which social rejection of ETA was only occasional and the victims did not exist publicly, to a final and very recent stage when things changed and expression was given to condemnation of the terrorist organization. In addition, the text serves to analyze the groups that were most firmly opposed to ETA, the latter’s mechanisms for spreading fear and stigmatizing a part of the population, and the policies of some parties and movements facing the terrorist gang.