* 2012 – Pahiño, Spanish footballer ( b. 1923 )

* 1988 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer ( d. 2012 )

* 1901 – Francisco Fernández Fernández, Spanish super-centenarian ( d. 2012 )

* 1923 – César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director and screenwriter ( d. 2012 )

However, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008, Greek government debt crisis, 2008 – 2012 Spanish financial crisis and European sovereign debt crisis, thinkers such as Terry Eagleton, David Harvey, and David McNally have given renewed impetus to the debate on whether Marx was right that capitalism inherently tends towards crisis ( which Marx discussed as the " contradictions of capital ").

In 2012 El Pais quoted unnamed Spanish military sources who said " The really expensive thing is maintaining Melilla, which also lacks any strategic interest, unlike Ceuta.

* 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish Galicia politician ( d. 2012 )

* 1925 – Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress ( d. 2012 )

In early June 2012, Spain requested European funding of 100 billion euros " to recapitalize Spanish banks that need it ", is not a " rescue " because a real rescue, would reach ten or twelve times that amount.

The news of funding led to a rise in risk premium Spanish to very high levels and a strong fall of the stock exchange in Madrid in June and July 2012.

Till Q2 2012, Spanish banks were allowed to report real estate related assets in higher non-market price by regulators.

* 2012 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician ( b. 1915 )

As of September 2012, enough funding has been achieved to enable them to translate the game into German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

On January 10, 2012, The Residents released " Coochie Brake "; it focused on an ambient, slightly ethnic sound, with lyrics in Spanish spoken by, apparently, a new singer.

* January 18 – Santiago Carrillo, Spanish politician ( d. 2012 )

On the morning of August 29, 2012 there was an incident in which seven Moroccan activists of the Committee for the Liberation of Ceuta and Melilla stormed the rock and placed flags of Morocco, resulting in the arrest of four of them by Spanish soldiers.

In 2012, Sheen was a guest on Who Do You Think You Are ?, tracing his Irish and Spanish ancestry.

The 2011-12 Copa del Rey was scheduled after the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final, as the Royal Spanish Football Federation anticipated the possibility of Spanish clubs meeting in the Champions League Final.

Poli Ejido 2012 Sociedad Deportiva was a Spanish football team based in El Ejido, Province of Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

* SWIFT J1822. 3 Star-1606 discovered on 14 July 2012 by Italian and Spanish researchers of CSIC and Catalogna's space studies institute.

* 2012: " Buenas noches mi sol " ( Fisher Price / Spanish lullaby record )

Following the November, 2011 Spanish General Election, on June 1, 2012 the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy reopened the monument to the public with the exception only of the base of the cross, in the past accessible by cable car or on foot, which will remain closed to ascent while the sculptures of the four apostles and the cardinal virtues forming part of the base of the cross are presently under engineering review and restoration for cracks and other deterioration.

In March 2012, it was announced that the European Grand Prix would be discontinued in 2013, with the Spanish Grand Prix alternating between Barcelona and Valencia.

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

On April 12, 2012, Bir and 30 other officers were taken in custody for their role in the 1997 military memorandum that forced the then Turkish government, led by the Islamist Welfare Party, to step down.

On Sunday 12 August 2012, new president Mohamed Morsi announced a series of military appointments.

* 2012 – President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.

On 12 April 2012 the military took over the central district of the capital.

On 7 September 2012, Captain Wales as he is known in the military, arrived at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan as part of the 100-strong 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment, Army Air Corps, to begin a four-month combat tour as a co-pilot and gunner for an Apache helicopter.

* 2012 – Abid Hamid Mahmud, Iraqi military officer ( b. 1957 )

* 2012 – The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a village within the Hama Governorate.

Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik was sworn in as President of the Maldives on 7 February 2012, in connection to the resignation of President Nasheed amidst weeks of protests and demonstrations led by local police dissidents who opposed Nasheed ’ s 16 January order for the military to arrest Abdulla Mohamed, the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court.

On 22 March 2012, it was reported that rebel troops from the military appeared on state TV announcing they had seized control of the country.

However, due to the 2012 insurgency in northern Mali, the military government controls only the southern third of the country, leaving the north of the country ( known as Azawad ) to MNLA rebels.

* 2012 – The Damascus bombings were carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others

The total manpower of Afghanistan's military was around 164, 000 in May 2011 but by June 2012 it reached around 200, 000.

As of 2012, the AAF has over 100 refurbished aircraft, which includes a number of C-27A Spartan and Antonov AN-32 military transport aircraft as well as Mi-17 and Mi-24 helicopters.

Although plans to lift investment restrictions were announced in May 2012, the change awaited what administration officials said were detailed reporting requirements on U. S. companies doing business in Burma, along with creating mechanisms to prevent U. S. economic ties to the powerful Burmese military and individuals and companies involved in human rights abuses.

On 26 January 2012, military personnel under the command of the retired officer Colonel Yaura Sasa arrested the commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, Brigadier General Francis Agwi.

** 2 ( 2012 ) ( Every hospital, airport and military base has Helipads.

The military and allied militias have fought in the Sudanese Civil War, the Darfur Conflict, the Sudan – SPLM-N conflict and the 2012 South Sudan-Sudan border conflict.

In January 2012, Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL who had served in Iraq and had 160 confirmed kills and thus the deadliest marksman in US military history, promoted his recently released book American Sniper on the Opie and Anthony Show, the same radio show where Ventura got into a verbal altercation with a host two years prior.

In March 2012 Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was convicted by the International Criminal Court for military use of children.

On February 1, 2012, Ruben Rozendaal, one of the military suspects, announced in local media that he felt that it was time for him to come forward with the truth about the December Murders because he wanted to clear his name before he dies ( suffering from a severe kidney disease, the doctors told him he did not have much time left to live ).

Additionally, the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance Report declared a rebalancing of national security and military focus towards the Asia-Pacific region with special mention of North Korea: