Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article argues that the Atocha murders have been exaggerated in explaining Suarez’s decision to legalize the PCE. The then-secret cables from the United States Ambassador to Spain provide three novel pieces of evidence. Firstly, that the decision was surely made earlier. Secondly, Brandt and the European social democracy did not raise any objections to the possibility of Suarez keeping the PCE illegal. Thirdly, the relevance of economic motives, which would later culminate in the Moncloa Pacts, in the decision to legalize. In addition to this, the historiography generated by the legalization is used to compare two ways of looking at the past, the novelistic andthe rigorous.
Source: Revista de Estudios Políticos
Author: Jorge Urdánoz Ganuza
Institution: Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
Language: Spanish
Topic: Spanish History and Politics
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411458981