Overview
- Twenty-five years after his killing by ETA, Santiago Oleaga, the financial director of El Diario Vasco, is remembered as having been shot while attending a rehabilitation session in San Sebastián and left unprotected, a loss that devastated his widow Amaia Guridi and their two children.
- The murder is presented as a deliberate attack on freedom that aimed to spread fear and silence the press rather than a random act of violence.
- Vocento and El Diario Vasco felt the impact across their newsroom and among readers opposed to terrorism, illustrating how ETA’s threats sought to shape editorial life and intimidate journalists.
- The Diario Sur opinion piece uses the anniversary to honor Oleaga and other coerced professionals and to list the newsroom values at stake: bravery, temperance, coherence and fidelity to a free and responsible press.
- The commemoration places the killing in the broader context of ETA’s decades-long campaign of violence against civic institutions and signals a renewed institutional focus on protecting journalists and preserving public memory of victims.