by Eva Forest · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489077119
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Operación Ogro is a detailed account of the attack against Luis Carrero Blanco, president of the Spanish government during the Franco dictatorship. Written by Eva Forest, the book offers a deep perspective on the preparations and execution of the attack, as well as the political and social context of the time. With a prologue by Antxon Etxebeste, this work is a crucial testimony about a key moment in the history of Spain and the Basque Country.
Genoveva Forest Tarrat was a Spanish far-left activist, writer and prisoner. Born into an anarchist family in Barcelona, she studied medicine in Madrid. During the 1970s, she supported the Basque terrorist organization ETA in their resistance to the government of dictator Francisco Franco. From 1974 to 1977, she was imprisoned for complicity in the Cafetería Rolando bombing (1974), which killed 13 people in Madrid. After Spain's transition to democracy, she served a term as a senator from 1992 until 1993. The wife of the Spanish writer Alfonso Sastre, she died in May 2007.
