Spain - the military and the Republic

Suggesting the army would intervene if Catalonia gained too much independence from Spain was not likely to endear Lieutenant-General Jose Mena Aguado to the Spanish Government. It did make a lot of headlines though.

Acres news coverage have been devoted to saying this is not the old Republic and that in modern Spain the army is just like any other European army and takes it's orders from the politicians, not the other way round more from El Pais (via IHT)...still more from the BBC...