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Catalonia's Separatist Catatonia

David4 Wrote: Nov 28, 2012 2:31 PM

Back at the end of 1992/begin of 1993 a lot of Czechs and Slovaks thought that setting up a border across the country was nuts. It was a project mostly of the intelligentsia. Now it is done, and that is what they live with. Modern Spain was formed by the union of Aragon and Castile, Ferdinand and Isabella. Modern day Catalonia is only a part of Ferdinand's old kingdom of Aragon. (Today's Aragon is the province west of Catalonia.)

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Catalonia's Separatist Catatonia

Catalonia, with the city of Barcelona as its Mediterranean hub, occupies modern Spain's northeastern corner. "Occupies" does double duty in the Spain-Catalonia political conflict. Catalonia's more extreme nationalists swear their region has been "occupied" by various Madrid-based governments for four to five centuries. Time to secede from Spain and create an independent Catalonia!

However, Spain's national government -- located in dreaded Madrid -- says secession is unconstitutional. It opposes Catalan secession.

Ignoring Madrid's warnings, in an election held last Sunday, Catalans demonstrated overwhelming support for self-determination as a common desire.

Or is it a bewitched itch? Since 1985, I've argued that...

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