Know more • As Spain prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator Francisco Franco's death and the return of democracy, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced a year-long program of events ...

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.

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 ...

Professor Sir Paul Preston’s work has spanned the entirety of Spain’s 20th-century history. Published in a succession of monographs, his research has covered the Civil War and its origins, the Franco ...

Spain’s ruling Socialist Party ... including that under General Francisco Franco’s 1939-1975 fascist dictatorship. While this increase was planned for 2029, the PSOE-Sumar government sped ...

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

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.

Indeed, Los Blancos are often depicted as being the favoured team of General Francisco Franco - the dictator who ruled Spain from the late 1930s until his death in 1975 - and his regime.