Antonio de León Cubillo Ferreira (3 June 1930 – 10 December 2012) was a Spanish Independentist, politician, lawyer and militant from the Canary Islands.
[2] While exiled in Algiers,[3] escaping the Francoist dictatorial regime, he began a campaign to gain independence for the Canary Islands in the late 1970s.
[5] In 2002, the Supreme Court of Spain recognized that the Government of Spain committed state terrorism against Cubillo in the 1978 assassination attempt and paid him damages as a result, the first time the State officially recognized it engaged in crimes against civilians.
Cubillo's core claims were that the Canary Islands could be better off if they could preserve and develop more of its resources and thus maintain greater autonomy from Madrid.
The movement he founded, however, failed to attract public support among the Canarian populace owing to its violent nature.