Word: fuerteventura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jaime Miralles Alvarez, 51, is also a maverick reformer whose libertarian convictions frequently get him in trouble. In 1962, for instance, he was exiled to Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands, for eleven months. Miralles had made the mistake of attending a meeting in Munich of an organization that advocated European unity, and was therefore considered dangerous by Spanish authorities. In 1970 he was one of 120 prominent Spaniards who were fined between $500 and $3,000 for signing a letter that urged U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers to hear their case against renewing the agreements for U.S. military bases...
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