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During the kidnapping of Miguel Angel Blanco and after his assassination, an unprecedented mobilization against terrorism was unleashed . While six million citizens took to the streets and joined the massive demonstrations and cries of rage, several thousand people intimately and silently had the impulse to write a letter to the Blanco-Garrido family. Emotionally unable to manage them, the parents and sister of the young councilman kept them in boxes and kept them in a garage in Ermua together with some of Miguel Angel's possessions, including his batteries. There they remained intact for more than twenty years.
In 2022, the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation gave the boxes from the Ermua garage to the University of Navarra on behalf of the Blanco Garrido family. The University's General file would conserve and catalog the material, and the research group Narrativa, violencia y report would lead its research. After cataloguing, more than 3600 letters have been quantified. Of these, some 300 were written by children and young people who had not yet come of age. They are the focus of this website.
The assassination of Miguel Ángel Blanco was one of those few events that mark a generation: those who lived through it remember where they were or what they were doing when the young councilman was murdered. The letters contained in this web show that the impact of the crime also reached the youngest: some decided to demonstrate for the first time against terrorism; others promised themselves that they would not remain silent in the face of complicity with ETA; and others, for the first time, made the suffering of so many victims their own. The letters allow us to look at that moment from a staff and unpublished window.
In 2022, the Miguel Ángel Blanco Foundation gave the boxes from the Ermua garage to the University of Navarra on behalf of the Blanco Garrido family. The University's General file would conserve and catalog the material, and the research group Narrativa, violencia y report would lead its research. After cataloguing, more than 3600 letters have been quantified. Of these, some 300 were written by children and young people who had not yet come of age. They are the focus of this website.
The assassination of Miguel Ángel Blanco was one of those few events that mark a generation: those who lived through it remember where they were or what they were doing when the young councilman was murdered. The letters contained in this web show that the impact of the crime also reached the youngest: some decided to demonstrate for the first time against terrorism; others promised themselves that they would not remain silent in the face of complicity with ETA; and others, for the first time, made the suffering of so many victims their own. The letters allow us to look at that moment from a staff and unpublished window.
