Spain, The U.S., and Latin America

Since taking office last December, Spain’s new Socialist government has accorded foreign policy a central role. This signifies quite a turnabout. For, ever since the beginning of this century—excepting the Civil War of the 1930s—Spain has been rather a passive witness than a participant on the international scene. The disrepute of the Franco dictatorship consigned the country to still greater, enforced international isolation, which was partly alleviated in the ’50s, when it s...