Thirty years of foreign “active and passive suffrage” in Spanish local elections
On August 27, 1992, exactly thirty years ago today, King Juan Carlos I sanctioned and promulgated the first reform of...
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Philip IV’s instructions on prostitutes and ambassadors of “evil life”
Philip IV, a king well known, among other reasons, for his frequent infidelities, love affairs and illegitimate children, was scandalized...
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History of Leon V, exiled King of Armenia and feudal lord of Madrid
Between the Cerro Almodóvar Park and the Vía Carpetana, in the Aluche neighbourhood in southwest Madrid, is the Leon V...
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Marx censored in Stalin’s USSR for “Russophobia”
In 1933, the Stalin regime decided to interrupt the publication of the complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels....
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British Cemetery in Madrid: the final resting place for “heretic” diplomats
Being foreign diplomat in Spain, and in Madrid to be exact, was not always synonymous with privilege. Until 1854, at...
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Spanish and international public diplomacy in Spain’s 1992 great events
Thirty years ago, the government of Felipe Gonzalez took advantage of the major events of 1992 to develop a whole...
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Extremes met in Galicia: 30 years of the historic Manuel Fraga-Fidel Castro meeting
On July 27, 1992, exactly thirty years ago, Cuban President Fidel Castro paid a two-day visit to the land of...
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Napoleon’s ambassador tells his version of 2nd of May Uprising in Madrid
On May 2, 1808, the rumor that the royal family intended to leave Madrid to meet with Carlos IV in...
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