Spain's historical debt to Western Sahara: An interview with Eoghan Gilmartin

Deirdre Kelly

doi:10.1386/IJIS_00073_7

Spain's historical debt to Western Sahara: An interview with Eoghan Gilmartin

Deirdre Kelly

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Abstract

In March 2022, the Spanish government, under socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, broke with five decades of neutrality on Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony. Sánchez sent a letter to Moroccan King Mohammed VI, supporting Morocco's 2007 autonomy plan for Western Sahara within the Moroccan state. Madrid-based journalist, Eoghan Gilmartin, discusses Spain's historical debt to Western Sahara, Spanish-Moroccan relations, Spanish contemporary politics and the current energy crisis. Gilmartin's work has appeared in publications including Jacobin Magazine, Tribune Magazine, Open Democracy, Novara Media and CTXT. He was interviewed on 20 May 2022 by Deirdre Kelly, a lecturer in Spanish at Technological University Dublin. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	195-205
Number of pages	11
Journal	International Journal of Iberian Studies
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1386/IJIS_00073_7 https://doi.org/10.1386/ijis_00073_7
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2022

Keywords

Algeria
energy crisis
human rights
memory politics
Morocco
Spanish politics

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