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Letter From Spain
Loewenberg, Samuel | November 29, 2004 issue

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Discusses the newly elected Socialist government of Spain, which has been enacting an ambitious social reform agenda that will give new rights to women, homosexuals and immigrants, and limit the role of the Catholic church in public life. Observation that such reforms, along with the government's foreign policy alliances with Germany and France, will put the new Spain to the left of the U.S.; How Spain's Socialist-led government is upsetting centuries of control by the Catholic Church that were upheld through its alliance with General Francisco Franco; Passage of laws by Parliament to combat violence against women; Overview of gay-marriage and immigration laws.

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SPAIN -- Politics & government -- 1975-; SOCIALIST parties; SOCIALISM; SOCIAL reformers; WOMEN -- Legal status, laws, etc.; WOMEN'S rights; CIVIL rights & socialism; LAW & socialism; MARRIAGE law; CATHOLIC Church; EMIGRATION & immigration law; EMIGRATION & immigration -- Government policy; WOMEN -- Social conditions; SAME-sex marriage -- Law & legislation; SOCIAL action; SOCIAL problems; SOCIALIST societies; FRANCO, Francisco, 1892-1975; SOCIALISM & religion; CHURCH & state; FRANCOISM; SPAIN -- Politics & government -- 1939-1975; SPAIN
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