These pages portray Arnaldo Otegi as I honestly see him, following my dealings with him and those close to him, and are complemented by my journalistic experiences during the twenty five years I spent as a political correspondent for the Basque Coun...

These pages portray Arnaldo Otegi as I honestly see him, following my dealings with him and those close to him, and are complemented by my journalistic experiences during the twenty five years I spent as a political correspondent for the Basque Country.

My perspective is neither Basque nor Spanish, it’s Catalan. And this has always allowed me to examine the conflict from a critical distance.

I’ve had a lot of dealings with Arnaldo. I have countless notes of our meetings and ten hours of recorded conversations. In the eight books I’ve written on the Basque Country, he’s mentioned 156 times and he pops-up in my interviews and reports 2,926 times between 1998-2004.