MADRID — Franco is dead, but he could be revived. For long, Francoism has been a past with more or less robust remains, like the last and annoying phlegm of a serious cold: the judiciary and the ...

United Nations has called for Spain to overturn a 1977 amnesty law that pardons crimes committed during the 36-year dictatorship of General Francisco Franco. Hundreds of thousands of people died ...

Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war to win control of Spain. Driven by a deeply conservative vision, he used torture, murder and incarceration to transform Spanish Society.

The participation of Sumar in the war plans underscores the political complicity of middle class pseudo-left parties in ...

Monday’s verdict is Spain’s first in relation to the abduction of thousands of children during the country’s Civil War and the decades of General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship that followed.

Following the death of General Franco in 1975, Spain’s political elites agreed to el pacto del olvido (“the pact of forgetting”), a conscious decision not to address the legacy of Francoism as a way ...

The history of Spanish football is the history of Spain, with the country's biggest sporting institutions serving as totemic representations of opposing ideologies. El Clasico between Real Madrid ...

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco. While she hardly knew him, receiving his remains 85 years later has ...

... but it has friendly relations with the communist dictatorship of China ...