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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Basque

Basque stories: 8 news summaries

(Newser) - Thousands of daredevil tourists have descended on Pamplona, Spain, for the annual running of the bulls that began today. Four were injured on the first day, including one American, though nobody was gored. As Time reports, sprinting ahead of six half-ton angry bulls is pretty dangerous, but many injuries result... More »

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Spain • Basque • San Fermin • bulls • Ernest Hemingway • tradition • daredevil • Pamplona • running of the bulls

(Newser) - A senior Spanish police inspector was killed in the Basque region's city of Bilbao this morning in a car bombing, the BBC reports. The regional government blamed the attack on the Eta Basque separatist group. If that’s confirmed, it will mark the group’s first fatal attack since the... More »

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terrorism • Spain • Basque • car bomb • Basque separatists

Basque Separatists Hand Over Power After 30 Years

After 30 years, separatists lose power in Spanish region

May 5, 09 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security has been ramped up in the Basque region of Spain today as it prepares for the inauguration of its first non-separatist government in 30 years. Spain's national left- and right-wing parties have come together to form a unity coalition, ending decades of rule by Basque separatists. The terrorist group... More »

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Spain • Basque • ETA • separatists • Spanish • Basque separatists • Popular Party • Socialist Party of Spain

 Spain Probes 
 Guggenheim's 
 'Troubled' 
 Finances 

Fraud, mismanagement, profligacy call Bilbao museum into question

Dec 15, 08 6:48 AM CST
(Newser) - A decade ago the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum put the sleepy Basque city of Bilbao on the international art map. But in recent months the institution has been tarnished by an embezzlement scam, overspending on middling artworks, and a $9.4 million loss in a botched currency deal. Now, reports... More »

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art museum • Spain • art • Basque • Guggenheim Bilbao • Bilbao • Guggenheim

Basque Military Chief
Nabbed in France

'Txeroki' had hand in ETA violence the past five years, say investigators

Nov 17, 08 4:04 AM CST
(Newser) - A military leader of the Basque separatist organization ETA linked to police murders and the 2006 Madrid airport bomb attack has been busted in France, reports the Times of London. The man, who goes by the nom de guerre of Txeroki, was arrested  in a small town in the Pyrenees.... More »

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Spain • France • Basque • Pyrenees • ETA • Basque separatists

 Guggenheim Bilbao 
 Honcho Embezzled $800K 

Museum sues CFO after years of fraud

Apr 18, 08 10:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guggenheim Museum's outpost in Bilbao is suing its director of finance after he admitted embezzling $800,000 from the institution's coffers. In a long mea culpa letter to the museum's director, Robert Cearsolo Barrenetxea confessed that he had used bank transfers and fraudulent checks to line his own pockets... More »

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art museum • Spain • art • Basque • Guggenheim Bilbao • Bilbao • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Basque Leader Busted In Major Crackdown on Separatists

Opposition party calls move an election ploy

Jul 30, 07 5:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - A top Basque separatist leader and 17 others have been arrested in the two months since the organization ended a 15-month ceasefire with Spain. Some analysts credit luck and improved intelligence for the arrests, including last week's bust of ETA's crucial head of logistics. But some critics say the crackdown... More »

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Spain • France • Basque • Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero • ETA • election

Basque Separatists End Ceasefire, Threaten Spain

Country braces for renewed violence

Jun 5, 07 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Basque separatist group ETA has declared an end to its 15-month ceasefire, and Spanish authorities are gearing up for the possibility of bombings at tourist sites this summer. ETA blames the return to violence on PM José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's "fascism"; addressing the nation on TV, Zapatero called... More »

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terrorism • Spain • European Union • Eta • Basque • Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero • terrorist

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