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The political situation in Spain is not that great. There are a lot of terrorist attacks occuring because of a specific group called the Basque Fatherland (State). This is a terrorist organization that is attacking political figures and buildings because they have been denied independence. They are fighting on behalf of the Basque country which is a province of Spain. Regarding people of African descent, there has been a huge increase in immigrant populations to urban Spanish areas. The Africans mainly moving to Spain are from the Northern region of the continent.
Specifically, African from Morocco are the ones that have had a long history of legal and illegal immigration into Spain. This is largely do to their proximity to one another. Interestingly, there are two Spanish enclave cities on northern coast of Africa called Melilla and Ceuta (State). Recently, there has been interest from Spain to re-establish relationships with its former colony, Equatorial Guinea (State). Spain continues to run a large aid program there. This is astonishing considering that most imperialistic country's, when they leave their colonies usually leave them in disarray and unestablished. Spain has not and has continued to help the country.
The following is a major newspaper in Spain called 20 minutes. This link to the newspaper discusses reforms that are being urged to be taken into consideration by the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy.
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Great post. You included a lot of specific information about the structure and history of government in Spain that I found interesting. That general information was a great lead in to the state of the political situation and issues of Moroccan immigrants sections. I was surprised to read that Spain has a largely positive relationship with Equatorial Guinea, considering that my country is France which has a particularly poor record with its colonies.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think its great that you were able to include the video link about reforms. Multimedia adds to every blog. I wish I spoke more spanish so I could have a better sense of the reforms, but good link in general.