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A year after Francisco Franco's death, the rubber-stamp parliament in Madrid moved Spain along the road to democracy in a curious way-by voting itself out of existence. After three days of sometimes emotional debate, the Cortes overwhelmingly approved (425 to 59, with 13 abstentions) the government...
Even the colonization of the New World may owe as much to epidemic disease as to gunpowder and the quest for gold. The Aztecs, McNeill notes, were on the verge of ousting Cortes from Mexico when an outbreak of smallpox blunted their assault. The disease spared the Spanish, who had...
Last week Suárez began his riskiest high-wire venture yet by submitting a long-awaited political reform bill to the 561-member Cortes (parliament), still a conservative bastion. The measure would go a long way toward turning Spain into a parliamentary democracy. The Cortes-in which less than...
New Constitution. If approved by the Cortes, the reform plan must be voted on in a national referendum, possibly as soon as December. If all goes well, elections for the legislature will be held by next summer. The first task of the two houses will be to draw up a...
Although considered somewhat conservative in the past, Suárez fully supported the modest steps toward democracy that Spain has taken in the past six months. In recent weeks, for example, he was the leading government spokesman in the Cortes for the Cabinet-drafted laws legalizing non-Communist political parties...