3/11: Zapatero is negotiating with ETA again

Libertad Digital ^ | 28 March 2010 | Europa Press

[J Aguilar]

Director of the Police under Mayor-Oreja
Cotino thinks that the Government is negotiating with ETA again.

In spite of which it may seem, Mayor-Oreja is not alone in his belief that the Government is negotiating with ETA. Juan Cotino, former director of the [National] Police, has the same certainty.

EUROPA PRESS

Juan Cotino, now second deputy president of the Valencian Council, thinks that the [Zapatero’s] administration is negotiating with the terror organization ETA again, according what he told in an interview in the program ' Bon Matí' on Radio 9 […]. Cotino, [...] was appointed chief of a main directorate of the [National] Police in 1996, with Jaime Mayor-Oreja as Interior minister […].

Asked, in addition, why he thinks they are negotiating, Cotino pointed out: "at the bottom of the issue there is a principle that is born from Marxism, which is that the end justifies the means, and the strategy is that for some the end of ETA justifies any means, and if those means are to negotiate, they negotiate", he asserted.

The president of the PP in the European Parliament and former Interior minister, Jaime Mayor-Oreja, indicated Tuesday of the past week that the Zapatero’s administration had carried out an approach towards the terror group and that he had the "certainty" that the government is negotiating with ETA. Justice minister, Francisco Caamaño, indicated yesterday that this affirmation is absolutely false.

[J Aguilar]

Firstly, Cotino should explain why he did not depurate the Spanish National Police when he was its director. Wasn't it his will or simply he could not, since the Spanish security corps are not responsible before a people's elected government?

Secondly, Mayor-Oreja told that the negotiation between the Socialist administration and ETA was armoured. Maybe a consequence of being partners in crime?

[J Aguilar]

Ping!

[marron]

Thanks for the ping.

Mayor Oreja was a member of the Aznar government.

“Peace with ETA is impossible, ETA will never change because they are against peace. ETA is a political organization that, in addition to being terrorist, is dedicated to the breakup of Spain. Totalitarian organizations never evolve, ETA can not change by its very nature, ETA and peace are incompatible.”

[tanuki]

I wonder how the Spanish public considers Hugo Chavez and the FARC, now that the ties between them and ETA are only too evident.

[J Aguilar]

I don’t think regular Spaniards majoritarily had ever a good opinion on Hugo Chavez. I would say that his ideological support from Spain comes from a too radical left, and it is true, but not the point. Hugo Chavez is supported in Spain by very big cats, probably the biggest of all, who are eager to do business with anyone with fresh petrodollars, radical left in this issue as in many others, just constitutes their alibi.

[tanuki]

Thanks, J. BTW, in line with your original post, I, too, think that this legitimization of ETA is also payback for ‘services rendered’.