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Seventy Years Later

March 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Der Spiegel notes this anniversary: The thousand bloody days of the Spanish Civil War ended in March 1939 when Franco marched into Madrid. The killing was not over.

Probably 200,000 human beings were killed in the name of Franco’s name in the Civil War in in the years after the war. But in their [...]

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Tags: Responsibility · Spain

Enlightened European Attitudes

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Some Americans praise the more sophisticated European attitude to sexuality. The fuss about the Palin pregnancy, or about Clinton’s affairs, would be unimaginable in Europe.
The Catholic Church hierarchy in the United States is heavily influenced by Europe: rising stars among the priesthood were educated at the North American College or at other European seminaries [...]

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Tags: Spain · sexual abuse

The War and Cartagena

April 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We were in Cartagena, Spain, recently before we left for our cruise.
In the town square at the waterfront is an unusual war memorial: A Spanish memorial to the Spanish-American war, which Spain lost.

The monument has a sailor holding a dying soldier.

The victories are holding their laurel wreaths down.
The monument lists the great battle at Santiago, [...]

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Tags: Spain · war