Word: cortese
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During the almost 40 years of Francisco Franco's rule in Spain, the underground Communist Party was a symbol and center of opposition. Yet since the return of democracy to Spain in the late '70s, the Communist Party has been on the skids. It captured 23 seats in the 1979...
Yet American capitalists wanted him too. In 1930, when he did his enormous fresco cycle of Mexican history in the Palacio de Cortes at Cuernavaca, a work that made no bones about his Communist sympathies, his $12,000 fee was paid by Dwight W. Morrow, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico...
Turning 18 is an important milestone in the life of any young man, but for Prince Felipe of Bourbon and Greece, the rite of passage was also an unprecedented event in the life of his country. At a formal ceremony in the packed Cortes, home of parliament, the son of...
If a conservative tide is running in some parts of Europe, Spain certainly is bucking it. For the first time since the Civil War, Socialists are in power, having trounced a collapsing center and a regrouping right in national elections in October. Last month their popularity was confirmed in municipal...
Last week, seated in a cramped but elegantly furnished office in the Cortes, Gonzalez gave a wide-ranging interview to TIME'S Paris bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante, and Jane Walker. Excerpts: