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Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a perfect stranger until July 1997 when the terrorist organization ETA crossed his path. He was 29 years old, came from a family of Galician emigrants and lived in the Biscayan town of Ermua, where he was a councilman. On July 10, ETA kidnapped him and gave the Government a 48-hour ultimatum: if it did not transfer its prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country and Navarre, Miguel Angel would be killed. The terrorists carried out their threat and the young councilman was found mortally wounded. He died on July 13.
During those days of anguish, hundreds of people wrote letters to the Blanco-Garrido family in an exercise of solidarity and compassion hitherto unknown. This website contains more than 300 unpublished letters written by those who were minors at the time. The story of an anonymous young man touched hundreds of children and young people who even today remember what they were doing when ETA murdered Miguel Ángel. The letters are a window to the past and an opportunity to update their commitment to the values symbolized by that unknown councilman from Ermua.
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Maybe you have located the letter you wrote to the family of Miguel Angel Blanco and you want us to send you a digital copy. Maybe reading the letters has stirred your memories of those days in July and you too have had the urge to write. Maybe you have just learned Miguel Ángel's story and it has had an impact on you. Or maybe you have used the letters with your students and want to tell us about your experience.
For all of the above, write to us.
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Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido was a perfect stranger until July 1997 when the terrorist organization ETA crossed his path. He was 29 years old, came from a family of Galician emigrants and lived in the Biscayan town of Ermua, where he was a councilman. On July 10, ETA kidnapped him and gave the Government a 48-hour ultimatum: if it did not transfer its prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country and Navarre, Miguel Angel would be killed. The terrorists carried out their threat and the young councilman was found mortally wounded. He died on July 13.
During those days of anguish, hundreds of people wrote letters to the Blanco-Garrido family in an exercise of solidarity and compassion hitherto unknown. This website contains more than 300 unpublished letters written by those who were minors at the time. The story of an anonymous young man touched hundreds of children and young people who even today remember what they were doing when ETA murdered Miguel Ángel. The letters are a window to the past and an opportunity to update their commitment to the values symbolized by that unknown councilman from Ermua.
About Michelangelo
Read more
Maybe you have located the letter you wrote to the family of Miguel Angel Blanco and you want us to send you a digital copy. Maybe reading the letters has stirred your memories of those days in July and you too have had the urge to write. Maybe you have just learned Miguel Ángel's story and it has had an impact on you. Or maybe you have used the letters with your students and want to tell us about your experience.
For all of the above, write to us.
We want to read you.
