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...church's World Meeting of Families in Valencia on July 8-9, Benedict will arrive in a once devoutly Catholic nation that both admirers and critics around the globe now refer to as "Zapatero's Spain." Since his March 2004 electoral victory, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has pushed through a series of social policies - from gay marriage and adoption to easier divorce proceedings and increased stem-cell research - that have made him a lightning rod in the ongoing Western debate over family values. Disciple And for many participants in that debate, Benedict has become...
...Stamps of Disapproval). Can Spain stay the course? It seems almost churlish to ask. So much wealth has been created in the last two decades that Spaniards appear largely immune to the "declinism" that plagues France, Italy and Germany. The two main political parties, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's ruling Socialists and Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party (PP), spit and scream over everything from Franco's legacy to gay rights; last week the PP broke off all relations with the government to protest what Rajoy called its "ignominious" dealings with the banned Batasuna party...
...outweighed caution. "It spread from mouth to mouth," explains Martínez. "One person would tell a friend or relative about the money he was earning, and that person would convince the next." Indeed, there is only one Afinsa agent in Dosbarrios, and everyone knows him. "Raúl Rodríguez is the brother of my husband's friend," says Rosario Suárez, 35. "At first I was skeptical, but he came to our house, and I talked to other people who had invested with him, and I was persuaded." Rodríguez describes himself...
...Washington, U.S. Putting El Caudillo to Rest "Farewell To Franco" offered a simplistic view of Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime in Spain [Nov. 21]. The only reason that Franco is in the spotlight again is the current government's obsession with the Civil War. Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems to be consumed by what happened 70 years ago. He wants to demonstrate that there were good guys and bad guys in our Civil War and that the so-called spirit of transition to democracy of the 1970s, in which the Spanish people preferred to look...
...allows sex changes - and some of the country's 17 autonomous regions perform them on the public health service - but little Leonor won't require the surgeon's knife to become Queen after her Dad. Just the lawyer's pen. The Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards would welcome a Queen. But what if, one fine day, a future Queen Leonor announced she wanted...