The Spanish media is focusing on the news that Francisco Talavera, alias El Tala, who has been detained in Spain 11 times for 16 crimes, serving 26 years in Spanish jails and is known as a “historic member” of the ETA group is now serving time in La Victoria jail in the Dominican Republic. He is in jail after being caught as a cocaine trafficking mule. A crewmember of the Spanish TV series “Encarcelados” (Jailed) was interviewing Talavera as a Spaniard in a Dominican jail when he confessed he was an ETA militant.
Diario Jaen writes that Talavera, who was part of ETA’s Los Cabras command, was known for teaching manufacture of firearms, for kidnapping Burgos jail warden and for planning the escape of several ETA members from the jail, among other charges.
The ETA organization was known for its bloody campaign for independence for the seven regions in northern Spain and southwest France mainly in the 1970s and 1980s. ETA stands for Basque Homeland and Freedom, and it first emerged in the 1960s as a student resistance movement bitterly opposed to General Franco’s repressive military dictatorship.
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