Four decades on from the murder of Yoyes, first woman in ETA's leadership
Forty years have passed since the murder of Yoyes, the first woman to reach the leadership of the terrorist organisation ETA, before she left the group.
Four decades without Yoyes: the murder of the first woman in ETA's leadership
Google News ES — Crime (es) marks this anniversary: forty years have passed since the murder of Yoyes, whose real name was María Dolores González Catarain, the first woman to reach the leadership of the terrorist organisation ETA.
Yoyes left ETA and accepted social reintegration, a decision that the group considered a betrayal. She was murdered in Ordizia on 10 September 1986 in front of her young son by a member of the organisation itself.
Her figure has remained a symbol of the internal contradictions of ETA terrorism and of the price paid by those who chose to abandon armed struggle. The anniversary revives the debate about the memory of victims of terrorism in the Basque Country and social reconciliation around that period of Spain's recent history.
Source: Google News ES — Crime (es)