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Spain sacks Catalonia government after independence declaration
October 28 , 2017
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- The Madrid government sacked Catalonia’s President and dismissed its parliament hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis since the return of democracy four decades ago.
- Catalonia held an Independent referendum on Oct. 1, 2017 which was declared illegal by Madrid and marred by heavy-handed national police tactics to stop it.
- Catalonia is one of Spain’s most prosperous regions and already has a high degree of autonomy. But it has a series of historic grievances, exacerbated during the 1939-1975 Franco dictatorship, when its culture and politics were suppressed.
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