Nearly 45,000 Descendants of Spanish Exiles Have Applied for Nationality in Chile

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Spanish consulates are at the discount for the completion of the three years that the Democratic Memory Act grants to facilitate access to Spanish nationality to grandchildren and children who fled the Civil War and to those who were exiled for political or economic reasons during Francoism. The deadline is October 22 and, in Chile, as of July 31, 44,181 descendants of exiles in the South American country have applied, of which they have been ap…