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 relocation of the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco will turn the mausoleum into a memorial for the victims of the Spanish civil war Spain's government passed a decree on Friday to ...

8, 2025 (Europa Press photo by Eduardo Parra via AP). This year marks 50 years since Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco died, ending his 36-year iron grip on the country and giving way to ...

The remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco have been exhumed following a long legal campaign by Spain's Socialist government. Relatives carried the coffin out of the basilica of the Valley ...