• Leader of Herri Batasuna Santiago Brouard, 1919

 

He was born in the town of Lekeitio, he studied medicine in the university of Valladolid. Once he finished his studies he went back to the Basque Country and specialized in pediatrics in the hospital of Basurtu. He married Teresa Aldamiz and had three children. At the same time, he helped create the first ikastolas (schools where lessons were given in Basque language) in Bizkaia.

He had to escape to the Northern Basque Country (French side of the Basque Country) when he helped in 1974 an ETA member who had been shot by the Spanish police. There he met historic ETA members, such as Argala. He took part in the creation of the KAS alternatiba when Franco's regime was about to end. Brouard was one of the creators of EHAS, the group that after 1977 would be known as HASI. Brouard was named president of HASI and when Herri Batasuna was created, he became a member of this party. He always saw himself as a Basque nationalist and socialist.

When he returned from exile, he carried on working as a doctor and politician at the same time. He was sent to prison in 1983 together with other Herri Batasuna members accused of singing the Basque fighters song Eusko Gudariak when the Spanish King Juan Carlos I went to Gernika. They interrupted his speech and all members who were singing had to be carried out of the building, amid big protests. He was member of the National Executive of Herri Batasuna, and later on, he became a deputy in the national parliament in Madrid. At the same time, he was deputy mayor in Bilbao.

Santi Brouard had been told that the right wing Spanish paramilitary groups had targeted him, but he said he would not flee and that he would not lock his office door because of it. In 20 November 1984 Luis Morcillo and Rafael López Ocaña shot him dead in his pediatrics office. The day they would kill Brouard was chosen carefully. That same day, years before, José Antonio Primo de Rivera and Francisco Franco died.

The police investigation identified and accused Morcillo and López Ocaña of killing Brouard, but a judge in the Audiencia Nacional of Spain released them from prison in 1999.

• The mayor of Bilbao named a street after Brouard in the neighborhood of Ametzola.
• The mayor of Lekeitio named the public sports field of the town after him.