Spanish Foreign Policy Hits Rocks Over Cuba
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his political spin doctors have been especially busy this summer. Indeed, they have been making furious rounds on the national television talk show circuit, trying to explain to an increasingly skeptical Spanish public just why the Socialist government’s “progressive” foreign policy of coddling third world despots has [...]
Spain’s Counter-Terrorism Policy Under Challenge by Al-Qaeda and ETA
The Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), in a June 5 statement published by two Basque pro-independence newspapers Berria and Gara, said that it would end a 15-month cease-fire and resume its terrorist campaign “on all fronts to defend the Basque homeland.” The declaration comes less than three months after al-Qaeda issued new threats [...]