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Spain: citizenship for descendants of war emigres

Spain began allowing citizenship applications Saturday from the descendants of people who went into exile after its Civil War. The government said as many as 500,000 people could be eligible under the program to address the painful legacy of the conflict.

The government says 300,000 of those children and grandchildren of war emigres live in Argentina.
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