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Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Federation of Basque Entities of Argentina has sent an “affectionate greeting,” and refers its member clubs as well as to friends of the Basque in Argentina the text that literally says the following:

After the Carlist Wars 1839 and 1871, with our country being beaten, impoverished and disoriented, Sabino Arana brought it back to life again proclaiming that Euskadi is the homeland of the Basques. 

On March 27, 1932, Easter Sunday, the first Aberri Eguna (literally the Day of the Basque Homeland) was celebrated in Bilbao, Bizkaia.

The selection of Easter Sunday met not only with the confessional character of the Basque Nationalist Party, who organized the first call, but also with the need to resurrect the Basque Country from the agony, lifeless, prostrate by poverty of a subsistence economy and crushed in its political life and in its national conscience by the seven years of dictatorship by Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera (1923/1930)

In these circumstances, the call to the Resurrection was more, much more than a metaphor and it echoed through all of the peaks of Euskal Herria, it spread through the shady valleys and, replicated by the Cantabrian Sea, it covered the land of the Basques, making it possible that in a few years we were able to achieve a statute of autonomy, form our own government and face Franco’s barbarism.

From the Basque Government in Exile, Aberri Eguna came to be for all of the Basques and we celebrate it with hope in Euskal Herria, in Argentina and all over the world.

Message from Sortu for the Diaspora

On its behalf, and to close this edition, Sortu has sent us a video message about Aberri Eguna directed specifically to Basques in the Diaspora. Here are the links:

-Sortu’s Aberri Eguna message to the Diaspora: Basque, Spanish, in English