Democracy and today
La democracia y el presente
1975–. After Franco's death in 1975 Spain became a democracy, and in the 1980s and 1990s most of Latin America returned to elected governments after years of military…
What happened
After Franco's death in 1975 Spain became a democracy, and in the 1980s and 1990s most of Latin America returned to elected governments after years of military rule. Spanish is now one of the most spoken languages in the world, and the language academies of the Spanish-speaking countries publish a shared grammar and spelling. Migration, the internet and the large Spanish-speaking population of the United States keep changing how it is spoken.
Within it
- Latin America since 1990 (1990–)
Its events
- c. 2015: The Venezuelan exodus