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Spain glares into bloody past
GUADALAJARA, Spain — On a chilly January morning in a corner of Guadalajara cemetery, a piece of Spain’s history is being exhumed. A group of men dig into a patch of ground they believe to be a mass...
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Mariano Rajoy’s crisis of credibility
MADRID — Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party frowns on dissidence, but there are sounds of discord in the ranks over the acting prime minister’s failure to deal effectively with nepotism and corruption. The...
View ArticleCatalonia crisis: How did we get here?
Spain continues to grapple with the fallout from the Catalan government’s October 1 independence referendum — declared illegal by Spanish authorities and the Constitutional Court. Since then, the...
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No truce as Spain’s new government takes shape
Spain Most Spanish front pages featured photos of new Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose new Cabinet is beginning to take shape. El País reported that Carmen Calvo, culture minister under ex-PM José...
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Spain’s Venezuela paradox
MADRID — Pedro Sánchez has a Venezuela problem. A growing number of Venezuelans are fleeing hunger, violence and political chaos and taking refuge in Spain. For the Spanish prime minister, the...
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Sánchez looks to far left to break Spain’s political gridlock
MADRID — For Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, the path out of political deadlock increasingly looks like a coalition government with the far-left Unidas Podemos — the first of its kind in the...
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How Spain went woke — and why that may not last
The country has been a world leaderon women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. Will next month’s election change all that? By AITOR HERNÁNDEZ-MORALESin Madrid Illustration by Marco Lawrence for POLITICO CARLA...
View ArticleSánchez’s polyglot promise: Bringing Spain’s other languages to Brussels
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez became an unlikely champion of multilingualism on Thursday by requesting Basque, Catalan and Galician be recognized as official languages of the EU. The proposal,...
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On the hunt for the missing statues of Francisco Franco
OPTICS On the hunt for the missing statues of Francisco Franco Banished from public spaces, the dictator’s discarded monuments lie scattered in government buildings across Spain. Photos by Julia...
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