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 ...

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 Spanish Civil War came to an end on April 1, 1939, just days after Francisco Franco’s Nationalist troops entered Madrid. By the time the capital fell, following a long siege, the war’s ...

The Spanish state on Thursday took over former dictator General Francisco Franco's summer palace, complete with its vast art trove, and evicted his heirs as part of the leftist government's ...

A memorial honouring volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War would help bring a city and Spain ...

More than 300,000 Cubans are currently engaged in obtaining Spanish citizenship through the Democratic Memory Law, commonly ...

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 ...

Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first encounter with Franco's dictatorship, they are now setting their sights on ...

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 ...

From the 1950s, as foreign tourists poured onto its beaches, Spain lobbied hard to join the European Economic Community, ...

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