For some, Catalonia crackdown evokes memories of the dark days of Spain’s dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/spanish-crackdown-on-catalonia-independence-effort-prompts-bitter-memories-of-franco-dictatorship/2017/11/08/b0ae6eac-bf14-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html
As Spanish leaders and Catalonia’s separatists battle over the fate of the would-be breakaway region, a shadow from the past is looming over the conflict: Francisco Franco, the dictator who held his nation in an iron grip from 1939 to well into the 1970s.
With Catalan leaders exiled and locked behind bars, Catalan media outlets under threat and national police using truncheons to break up last month’s independence referendum, many here in Catalonia say that their repressive history is making an ugly return...
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