How ‘Different’ Was Spain? The Later Franco Regime in International Context

Abstract

In April 1970 Amnesty International launched a campaign aimed directly at holidaymakers departing for Spain. Posters were displayed near airports in Britain that showed an imprisoned face behind bars against a background of sand and blue skies. The slogan read: ‘Have a good time — but remember, Amnesty for Spain’s political prisoners’. 1 Amnesty’s interest in Spain at this time is understandable given that it currently recognised some 250 Spanish ‘prisoners of conscience’: more prisoners than in any other country in the Western world and a caseload equivalent in size to that for the Soviet Union. 2 While it is unlikely that Amnesty’s intervention had any significant impact on the increasing numbers of foreign tourists flocking to Spanish beaches and resorts (34 million by 1973), this episode does capture the interconnection between, on the one hand, Spain’s increasing prosperity and economic development and, on the other, the new opportunities that were thereby created for mobilising international criticism of the Franco regime. This was but one of many examples of the tarnished modernity which characterised the regime’s international standing in its latter years. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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