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Founding of MPAIAC, 1964
Antonio Cubillo founded the principal organisation seeking Canarian independence from Spain.
Significance here: The founding organisation of the modern Canary Islands independence movement.
Canary Islands independence
Attributes the movement's programme to its specific organisations and founder: the Movement for the Self-Determination and Independence of the Canary Archipelago (MPAIAC), founded by Antonio Cubillo in 1964, its 1970s armed activity through the Guanche Armed Forces (FAG) and Destacamentos Armados Canarios (DAC), and its later political successors, the National Congress of the Canaries (CNC) and the Popular Front of the Canary Islands (FREPIC-AWAÑAK). This bundle deliberately excludes detailed narrative of specific 1970s-80s armed incidents, including the 1978 attempted assassination of Cubillo, presenting these only at a high level.
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What is this case about?
The Movement for the Self-Determination and Independence of the Canary Archipelago (MPAIAC) was founded in 1964 by Antonio Cubillo, seeking the Canary Islands' secession from Spain.[1] During the 1970s, while exiled in Algiers, Cubillo led an MPAIAC campaign that operated through armed groups (the FAG and DAC) with support from GRAPO, Libya and Algeria; in 1978, he was seriously injured in an assassination attempt.[2] Cubillo returned to the Canary Islands in 1986 and founded the National Congress of the Canaries (CNC), pursuing independence through political rather than armed means; a separate organisation, FREPIC-AWAÑAK, continues a related Berberist political tradition. Cubillo died in 2012.[3]
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Current position
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The Canary Islands remain an autonomous community of Spain. Following MPAIAC's 1986 shift away from armed activity, Canarian independence advocacy has continued through small political organisations, including the National Congress of the Canaries and FREPIC-AWAÑAK, with limited broader public support documented in the sources reviewed.[3]
History
History of the Canary Islands independence movement
From MPAIAC's 1964 founding to Cubillo's 1986 return and the CNC.
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Cubillo's 1986 return and founding of the CNC
Cubillo returned from exile and shifted the movement toward electoral politics.
Significance here: The movement's transition from 1970s armed activity to later political-party organising.
Sources for this page
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Claim: The Movement for the Self-Determination and Independence of the Canary Archipelago (MPAIAC), a Canarian nationalist and socialist organisation, was founded in 1964 by Antonio Cubillo, with the objective of achieving the Canary Islands' secession from Spain.
- Canary Islands Independence Movement (Wikipedia) link, Founding section. Source record
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Claim: During the 1970s, while exiled in Algiers, Cubillo led an MPAIAC campaign for Canarian independence that operated through two armed groups, the Guanche Armed Forces (FAG) and the Destacamentos Armados Canarios (DAC), maintaining relationships with the Spanish armed group GRAPO, which supplied weapons and explosives, and with the governments of Libya and Algeria, which provided financial support; in 1978, Cubillo was seriously injured in an assassination attempt linked by some accounts to Spanish Interior Ministry security forces. This bundle does not narrate the specific armed incidents of this period in detail.
- Canary Islands Independence Movement (Wikipedia) link, Armed activity section. Source record
- Antonio Cubillo (Wikipedia) link, Exile and 1978 assassination attempt section. Source record
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Claim: Antonio Cubillo returned to the Canary Islands in 1986 and subsequently founded the National Congress of the Canaries (CNC), a separatist political party pursuing independence through electoral and political means rather than armed activity; a separate organisation, the Popular Front of the Canary Islands (FREPIC-AWAÑAK), describes itself as continuing Cubillo's Berberist political tradition. Cubillo died on 10 December 2012.
- Antonio Cubillo (Wikipedia) link, Return, CNC founding and death section. Source record
- Canary Islands Independence Movement (Wikipedia) link, FREPIC-AWAÑAK section. Source record