Spain's Socialist Utopia Mugged by Reality

by Soeren Kern
Pajamas Media
May 21, 2011

http://kern.pundicity.com/9645/spain-socialist-utopia-mugged-by-reality

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Throngs of Spanish youth have gathered in more than 150 cities across Spain to protest skyrocketing unemployment, cutbacks to social welfare benefits, and rampant corruption among Spain's political elite. The massive but mostly peaceful protests (photo galleries here, here, here and here) by disaffected youth represent the first significant manifestations of social unrest since a decades-long housing bubble burst in late 2007 and plunged the Spanish economy into a deep and prolonged recession.

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