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.

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco ... and therefore an enemy of Franco’s Nationalists.

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 ...

In the wake of Dictator Francisco Franco’s government “crisis ... down in the line of fire between attacking Loyalists and Nationalists defending a barracks. After a two-day battle the ...