In the farming village of Jodar in southern Spain, 2,000 demonstrators march down the heat-buckled tarmac toward a police checkpoint at the edge of town where, they've just heard via megaphone, their hero has been detained. In front stride men in green T-shirts printed with the letters SAT, the Spanish acronym for the 40,000-strong Workers Syndicate of Andalusia, a leftist trade union building a network abroad. It's Oct. 4, a general strike is on, no shops are open, and the sidewalks are lined with hulking members of Spain's Guardia Civil and the local police force, clean-shaven and dressed in black.
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