Marta Sánchez: 36 Years Since She Sang 'Soldiers of Love' in the Persian Gulf, Which Today Would Have Gone Viral

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At Christmas 1990, Spain was ruled by the PSOE of Felipe González. The president had appointed Narcís Serra as Minister of Defense, a political tandem that would last another year.Serra had the idea of sending a super popular singer then to the Persian Gulf, specifically Abu Dhabi, to encourage the military who were part of a mission of the UN and were away from their families on Christmas Eve. And he did it to Marilyn Monroe, not with a tonadil…