Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Today, at a grandiose monument near Madrid, the coffin of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco

is being exhumed to be reburied in a quiet public cemetery. The controversy surrounding

the move says a lot about how Spain remembers its bloody history.

And Thailand has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in Southeast Asia.

Officials have been trying to address the problem with free contraception and education efforts.

Now they're turning to teenaged radio DJs for help.

But first.

The streets of downtown Beirut between the huge mosques, old churches and buildings ruined by

the civil war have been filled with demonstrations for more than a week.

We are here because we don't believe anymore in our government.

I never thought the day would come then. I would witness such a beautiful thing.

The entire Lebanese people from across the country just going down the streets and

and raising their voice together united.

With music and dancing, people from all classes and from all of Lebanon's rich mixture of

sectarian identities have come out to protest against a government that presides over a barely

functioning state. And it's not just in Beirut. Demonstrations can be found all over the tiny

country of fewer than 5 million people. Few things work in Lebanon.

Electricity, provision is minimal, water isn't drinkable and the roads are a mess.

This state of affairs isn't new, but the demonstrations are, whether because people were

resigned to the difficulties of life or because they feared the repercussions other Arab

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