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Spanish rhetorics of empire from the 1950s to the 1970s
simplified and manipulative appropriation of lusotropicalism and stressed the harmony of Portugal’s presence in Africa. One of the strategies for adapting to the growing anti-colonial tide was the rebranding of the colonies as overseas provinces (1951). In this renewed discourse, Portugal was again presented as an indivisible, multi-continental nation. 6 The Spanish Franco regime followed the Portuguese