Víctor Terradellas: Catalan Politician Dies at 78

BarcelonaThe co -worker and politician Víctor Terradellas died this Sunday at the Joan XXIII Hospital in Tarragona, at the age of 62, after suffering a stroke on Friday in the farm where he lived, in Cornudella de Montsant. Independentist convinced, he was the founder and leader of the NGO Igman Action Solidaria and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Convergence. In fact, he played a key role in the process, both during the stage of Artur Mas and in Carles Puigdemont. Through cooperation and activism he had been weaving an extensive network of international contacts that he used to promote the recognition of Catalonia and independence, and which became controversial following the so -called Russian plot. Terradellas, 62, leaves a woman, the veteran co -worker Judit Aixalà, and two children.

Through Igman, Tarradellas carried much of the Catalan Solidarity with the victims of the Balkan War, but as a co -op also worked in countries such as Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Morocco, Guatemala and Mexico, among others. Was also founder of the think-tank Catmón Foundation and magazines ONGC i Catalan International View. It was from the cooperation that later made the leap to politics and was one of the promoters of the Platform for Sovereignty, a movement within the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia that pushed the party to independence. Very close to Jordi Pujol, he also had a good relationship with Oriol Pujol, Artur Mas and Carles Puigdemont. In 2011 he was called, in fact, Secretary of International Convergence Relations and played a leading role in the overall echo of the process.

In recent years, justice has focused on Terradellas’s international activity to promote independence, and Judge Joaquín Aguirre had been investigated for his contacts with personalities close to Kremlin in the so -called Russian plot of the process. Terradellas did not hesitate to talk or negotiate with anyone if he believed that doing so could somehow help Catalonia independence, and explained that he had also made contacts with prominent personalities from the United States, Israel and several European countries, for example. The judge also investigated him for the financing of CDC and the process.

Far from institutional politics, in recent years he continued to cultivate some of his international contacts and had not left independence activism. Outstanding politicians had gone to see Terradellas in the farmhouse of Cornudella de Montsant, the Molí dels Aubins, where he carried a rural tourism business, and maintained contacts with personalities related to all the independentist formations, although he had distanced himself from the current line of Junts and Carles Puigdemont.