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06/30/2015 - Caracas, Venezuela

Gorka Iribar has passed away last night in Venezuela, after battling for two years against the disease that finally has taken him from us.

Many members of the Basque-Venezuelan community keep in their retinas his image as the aurreskulari of many events and celebrations. He was also a master dantzari. pelotari and pelotazale.

From Eusko Etxea of Caracas, Pedro Javier Arriaga remembers him as an always active member of the Basque community. "Gorka for many years was an important part of our dance groups in Eusko Etxea of Caracas and also collaborated with the other Basque clubs in Venezuela," he recalls.

"From Eusko Etxea we want to show his family our appreciation and join their grief", he pointed to EuskalKultura.com.

Amaya Zenarutzabeitia, as a representative of the Basque-Venezuelan residents in the Basque Country, has also expressed her sorrow. She recalls him as a good palotari, "as was his father," and aurreskulari, and loving and cheerful person, whose death makes me sad, she noted.

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