Españoles en Vietnam: Franco's last war.

I would have wanted to see some kind of epilogue for this covering the status of Spanish Vietnam vets, a national Vietnam memorial in Madrid, post-Vietnam Spain in foreign affairs and NATO, and a "whatever became of" section on the Spanish royals in exile and what they are doing in ATL 2018, such as Juan Carlos de Borbon and family.
 
I would have wanted to see some kind of epilogue for this covering the status of Spanish Vietnam vets, a national Vietnam memorial in Madrid, post-Vietnam Spain in foreign affairs and NATO, and a "whatever became of" section on the Spanish royals in exile and what they are doing in ATL 2018, such as Juan Carlos de Borbon and family.

Well, you asked and you shall be given... let me think a bit about that, research a bit and, as soon as possible, you shall read it.
 
Postcript: 1st Part: Spain 1975-1985
Postcript:
1st Part: Spain 1975-1985

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The Coalición of Fuerzas Democráticas (Coalition of Democratic Forces) who wont the elections of 1971 was not to last. The arrival of democracy led to the creation of dozens of new political parties and the Coalition itself, made up by the temporary union of different forces, once the lost their common enemy, the dictatorsip and its heirs, collapsed because of those internal diferences. Even then, in the elections of 1975, Rodolfo Llopis and the PSOE became the main party of Spain and formed government. In that year, Morocco invaded the Ceuta y Melilla, trusting that Spain was still in tatters after the abdication of Alfonso XIV. Even if the two cities were easily taken and without violence, the bulk of the Spanish population fleed before submitting to the new master, and Rabat found itself in control of two ghost cities that remainded in that state for a long while.

This disaster and the perceived failure of the reforms of the PSOE led to a change when the moderate-reformist faction within the PSOE was replaced by the revolutionaries, who set out on a course of sweeping nationalizations and land expropriations; however, the process also failed as the needed modernization of the whole country didn't come at the needed pace, and this led to a political inestability, as well as a social and economical one that led to very unstasble government, which were replaced quite fast, as we can see in the fates of the three cabinets that existed between March 1975 and September 1976: weak minority governmens that were forced to adopt a strict austerity policy, which made them deeply unpopular and thus led to their resignation one after the other.

The fourth of these governments, headed by Llopis itself, managed to last longer, from September 1976 to November 1978, but without too much success and marked by the tragic death in a plane crash of the succesor of Llopis, the Public Works Minister, Felipe González. The wave of left-wing sentiment vanished because of the crisis generated by the inestability, as the Presidential elections of 1989 proved, when the former General of the Army, Manuel Guitérez Mellado, who ran as an independent in the elections, became the new head of the Republic until his death in 19995. Thus, it was not suprise when the Unión Centrista (UC - Centrist Union), led from 1975 to 1983 by Fernando Herrero Tejedor and from then to 1996 by Adolfo Suárez, obtained an easy victory in the 1979 elections, which saw the rise of an old trouble: the Catalan and Vasque nationalism, represented by two center-right parties, Convergencia i Unió (CiU - Convergence and Union), led by Miquel Roca, and the Partido Nacionalista Vasco (PNV - Nationalist Party of the Vasque Country) led by Iñigo Aguirre. Even if both CiU and the PNV were following moderate lines, that would change with the Catalonian crisis of 1997.

Under Herrero Tejedor, however, the country reached an age of development and moderate stabilty, in spite of the failed coup d'etat by coronel Inestrillas on December 5, 1980. The Spanish Constitution of 1975 was revised and enlarged in 1982, but the defeat of the Centrist candidates in the local efections of that year led to new inestability in the cabinet and the final resignation of Herrero Tejedor on the next yer and its replacement by his vice-president, Adolfo Suárez, who was able to set up a Center coalition with the PNV and CiU and ruled without problems until the elections of 1985, that saw another Centrist victory in spite of the good turnout of the PSOE led by its charismatic new leader, Alfonso Guerra.
 
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Hope we can see an additional postscript regarding post-Vietnam legacy in Spain, Spanish Vietnam veterans and the national VN memorial in Madrid, Spanish reluctance to go into further military misadventures, and also on the Spanish royals in exile and their thoughts and regrets on the Vietnam war and its affect on Spanish democracy and themselves.
 
Haven't Ceuta and Mellila long been home to troops of the Spanish Legion including light armour? I know there are more in the Canaries and on the mainland, but surely any Spanish Govt would never pull them out. That would mean no walkover in either and a bloody fight for each.
 
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