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A sexism scandal in Spanish football hides the country’s progress
The EconomistIn 1997 Ana Orentes appeared on a Spanish television show to describe decades of vicious abuse by her husband: wild jealousy, beatings and isolation from her friends and family. Two weeks later she was found tied to a chair and burned to death by the man she had denounced. Spain was shocked not only by her murder, but also by the fact that she had called the police many times, to no avail.
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