Spain Political Analysis

The Kingdom of Spain, including the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands (CIA), is approximately 504,750 square kilometers. This land is about twice the size of Oregon. The country is located in Western Europe and border with the country; Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco (Ceuda and Melilla) (CIA). This country accounts for about 30% of the arable land, the majority of agricultural exports. The population of Spain is about 40.1 million people and the growth rate is about 1% (CIA). The population composition is mainly the heritage of the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.

Understanding Spain's history is an important background in analyzing the current situation. In 1936, the popular front, including the Communist Party, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, the Republican Party, the Republican Left Party, and the other Left Party Association, won the Spanish national election and beat the conservative Spanish Autonomous League Allied Association. Fearing the democratic outcome, fearing that the democratic republic leads to Communism, the destruction of the Jews and churches of Freemasonry and the conservative political forces allied with the army, guidance of the generals Hose Jango and Francisco Franco We led to the person. The coup d'etat in July led to the Spanish civil war (1936-1939). At the expense of 500,000 people, Flor won the civil war with the help of the power of Nazi Germany and Italy, established a military dictatorship that led to the totalitarian state.

During the reign of Franco, Spain was officially neutral during the Second World War and isolated from the outside world economically and culturally. Apart from the official political party (Farrange), under the military dictatorship, Spanish parties were banned. Labor unions are prohibited and all political activities that use violence or intimidation to achieve its purpose are prohibited. Spain's rule of Morocco ended in 1967. Morocco won the military invasion of West Africa from 1957 to 1958, but Spain gradually abandoned the remaining African colonies. Guinea of ​​Spain was awarded the independence of Equatorial Guinea in 1968, but the Epinian enclave of Morocco was transferred to Morocco in 1969. Two cities in Africa, Ceuta and Melilla, are under Spanish rule and preserve sovereignty.

Spain's political legitimacy crisis invaded by Napoleon caused the reaction of the Spanish overseas empire. As a result of the Spanish-Americans, the majority of the area achieved political independence and urged the establishment of a sovereign state. The recently independent area is the first area to achieve independence and the old Spanish power center in Mexico and Peru has a strongly deeply organized organization and elite that was the last place to achieve independence in this era . Two independent exceptions are Cuba and the island of Puerto Rico, which was Philippine and Spanish colonies until the 1898 Spanish-American war.