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Allen sought clarification. “That means that you will have to shoot half Spain?” To which Franco replied, “I repeat, at whatever cost.” ...
Fifty years after the death of General Francisco Franco, thousands of monuments, plaques and street names honouring the ...
The Spanish government on Thursday returned seven paintings to the descendants of an ex-Madrid mayor who lost them fleeing ...
He accused PP of being an "undemocratic" party and wanting to return "to Primo de Rivera and Francoism." "This is your way of doing politics," he continued, "the one where I am in charge here. And ...
Remember how April 2 was “Liberation Day”? That was the day Donald Trump announced his tariff regime; it was, I think, the third grand announcement out of about six total. I know you remember it—the ...
Some 2,000 anti-fascists marched to the heart of Madrid on Saturday, to lay wreaths to the victims of Francoism. More than a thousand also took part in a rightist march over plans to give the ...
A new anthology rescues the work of the pioneering Spanish electroacoustic musician, whose breathtakingly radical work signaled a new spirit of openness after the fall of the dictatorship.
However, once investigations into the 'Lost children of Francoism' begun, she knew something more serious could've happened on that fateful day. "They lied about everything," she told presenters ...
The anniversary of his death is traditionally celebrated by those nostalgic for Francoism, who, until 2019, paid tribute to him at his mausoleum in the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen ...
Both parties opposed a 2022 national law that pardons people punished under Francoism and created remembrance days to honour victims. Valencia's special prosecutor for democratic memory ...
There, Sánchez announced that his Government will "resort to all the means of the rule of law to protect the democratic memory and the dignity of the victims of Francoism". The head of the Executive ...