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The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
The form of government in Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, [1] that is, a social representative democratic constitutional monarchy in which the monarch is the head of state, while the prime minister —whose official title is "President of the Government"—is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the Government, which is ...
Racism in Spain (Spanish: Racismo en España) can be traced back to any historical era, during which social, economic and political conflicts have efficiently been justified by racial differences, be it in the form of racism as an ideology or in the form of racism as simple attitudes or behaviors towards those who are perceived as being different.
Spaniards woke up Monday to find their country in political disarray after a general election a day earlier left no party with a clear path to forming a government. The uncertainty deepened as ...
Black legend. A 1598 engraving by Theodor de Bry depicting a Spaniard feeding slain women and children to his dogs. De Bry's works are characteristic of anti-Spanish propaganda which resulted from the Eighty Years' War. The Black Legend ( Spanish: Leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Spanish: Leyenda negra española) is a purported ...
Francisco Franco Bahamonde [f] ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko βa.aˈmonde]; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.
t. e. The government of Spain ( Spanish: Gobierno de España) is the central government which leads the executive branch and the General State Administration of the Kingdom of Spain . The Government consists of the Prime Minister and the Ministers; the prime minister has the overall direction of the Ministers and can appoint or terminate their ...
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ˈsantʃeθ ˈpeɾeθ kasteˈxon]; born 29 February 1972) [1] is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. [2] [3] He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having previously held that ...