Fernando Buesa
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Fernando Buesa Blanco (29 May 1946 – 22 February 2000) was a Spanish Basque politician in the Basque Christian Democracy and in the PSE-EE branch of the Social Democratic party PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party). He was assassinated by ETA.
Born in 1946 in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, Buesa studied law in Madrid and Barcelona and practiced from 1970 to 1986 in Vitoria. He was a councillor in Vitoria (1983-97), a member of the parliament of the Basque Country (1984-2000) and president of the government of the province of Álava (1987-91). Buesa was also deputy lehendakari (president) and secretary of Education in a coalition PSE-PNV Basque government from 1991 to 1994. From this position, he steered the process that moved the Basque-language schools (ikastola) into either the Basque public education network or the Basque private education sector.
Fernando Buesa was married and had three children.
At the time of his death Buesa was the leader of the socialist party in Álava and the socialist spokesman in the parliament of the Basque Country. He was killed by the terrorist group ETA while he was walking through the university campus in Vitoria on the 22 February 2000. The car bombing also killed his bodyguard, the ertzaina (Basque policeman) Jorge Díez. The killing inspired a celebrated documentary by the Basque filmmaker Eterio Ortega Santillana, Asesinato en Febrero (Killing in February).
His brother, an economics professor in Madrid, has become politically active analyzing the economic implications of eventual Basque independence.
The sports arena, home to the Vitorian Baskonia basketball team, formerly known as Araba Arena, was named Fernando Buesa Arena after his death.
External links
- Fundación Fernando Buesa Fundazioa (non-english)
- Asesinato en febrero, documentary film with interviews to *Basque Parliament lists activities of its historic members (not in English)