Summary

Twelve years ago Gregorio Ordóñez was murdered. And twelve years later we can still observe how his political legacy, the civic inheritance he left to Basque society, continues to be valid and continues to inspire us and commit us to his cause. “Goyo” was not an involuntary hero, condemned by circumstances to a fate he did not expect. Gregorio Ordóñez was a man who assumed an unlimited commitment to freedom, in an integral and conscious manner, even to the point where it cost him is own life. He did not rebel against terror and against fear simply out of a non-negotiable sense of justice. He rebelled out of a sense of dignity. His cry of “Enough”, which was later intoned by so many voices on the streets of this city, expressed his firm decision not to tolerate the humiliation and subjection of the agents of terror any longer, or that of their accomplices and beneficiaries, those who instigate terror and seek to legitimise it. Gregorio’s was not the only voice, but it was the clearest and loudest, the one that conveyed a sense of courage to the silenced masses that make up this society.