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Spain's Economic Strategy toward the “Nations of Its Historical Community:” The “Reconquest” of Latin America?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Eric N. Baklanoff
Eric N. Baklanoff*
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University of Alabama
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From one of the poorest countries in Europe in the late 1950s, Spain emerged as a middle industrial power by the time of the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975. Subsequently, under the leadership of King Juan Carlos I, Franco's successor as chief of state, Spain negotiated a smooth transition from authoritarianism to a parliamentary-monarchy. On the first of January 1986, the Iberian nation acceded to full membership in the European Community (EC). However, prior to this date and independently of the EC (now the European Union), the Spanish state had already set in motion, in 1981, two great undertakings related to Latin America: (1) the commemoration of Columbus' fateful voyage to the New World in 1492 and (2) the formation of an “Iberoamerican Community of Nations.”

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , Spring 1996 , pp. 105 - 127
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Copyright © University of Miami 1996

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