Ibarguren's lawyer, Antton Ibarguren, commented on more than one occasion in 1987-88 to those responsible for Larrun, who were then half-yearly, that it would be of great interest to make a special copy of the negotiation. Negotiation with severe “n”. It took me years to realize that the intention of that wise man went beyond the need to negotiate between ETA and the state: how to negotiate, what are the elements of a negotiation. Soon Algiers’ effort came, and Ibarguren couldn’t hide his anger when we saw him last time at a Larrun meal after failure (in the Himalayas he will have lost his life right away), “we’ve paused and we’ll pay him.” Until 20 October 2011, twenty-two years.

Who for what how far (and why)? At least the years have passed since 1984. That Guidoni has been called by the ambassador to give the ultimatum, and then the extradition, the GAL and one who knew too much about that contact, Santi Brouard. The “negative witnesses” always run the risk of this, as advanced by Juan José Etxabe and Juan Felix Eriz. Algiers, for their part, and one bull and another, Josu Muguruza and Iñaki Esnaola. In the days of Lizarra-Garazi and Loiola, the whole Christ is in prison. I had to open a new dawn. It was more complicated to finish than to start. You are right.

What is at stake for the coming months is the story of recent years, a ditxous “story”. Story? One? The only one who is divided into two? I am amazed at the restored Manichaism of many of those who until the day before yesterday were apologetics of almost all relativism. That there is not one truth, many truths, each of the many truths or explanations that, between all and all, formed the famous plural kaleidoscope… now to proclaim the “story”.

One of the most important objectives from now on must be to sew, or at least to listen and record the different truths that many have. Knowing that not all of us are going to know them and that some are not going to want to bear witness. If all the truths were to be said, if they did not hurt … We are reading the truths on one side and the other and on the other, the truths of many others are missing.

However, the new situation in Euskal Herria will be played later than backwards. Even though I don't know what's going to change, I know what I'd like it to change quickly.

One. The people of Herri Batasuna and the KAS – we are going to have to start using the real letters again – have to apply at home the democratic parameters they demand for the structures of society, and fite. The pyramidal hierarchical structure has led ETA to perform its best service by making the weapons shut, paradoxically, with a more open structure. It will cost them a lot of internal change, going back to the institutions abandoned in 1983 (and how successful!) When they're illegal, too, but they have to. There have been other models for a long time.

And two. Torture is over and over. Zero torture. If we are not able to harmonise the actions of the police here and in Spain at least with that of any other in Europe, the other political objectives or vain fantasy or demagogy are negligible. Torture must be at the centre of the discussion until there is a guarantee that it has been eliminated.

ETA has silenced the weapons in our mountains, at a time when the shotguns have begun to shoot, while the birds have fled with cold odor to Africa. We would like to see the prisoners and escapes who are absent for so long come back to our streets. At least the first.