Fifty years later, we're still dealing with it. monothemeToday's Spain bears little resemblance to that of half a century ago, when the dictator died in his bed. Neither the Church nor the army wields their power, and a profound social and economic transformation has taken place. Basque terrorism is also a thing of the past. What, then, remains of the endemic problems inherited from the 19th century and fossilized by the 20th-century dictatorships? The same old age-old issue: the Catalan elephant in the Spanish room.