In a statement, Franco’s grandchildren said, “the government, aided by other powers of the state and the Church’s hierarchy, has completed the profanation of the sepulcher of our … ...

After 50 years of democracy, a growing number of Spain's youth believe that the country was better off under Franco. The post Spain's Youth Are Giving Franco a Sympathetic Look appeared first on ...

But by the 1960s, Franco had opened Spain to tourism and multinational industries, which brought foreigners with more liberal ideologies. The economy also boomed, giving women more independence.

BARCELONA, Spain — The family of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco will take charge of his remains after Spain’s government has them exhumed from a mausoleum, his relatives said Saturday.

Late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's relatives carry his coffin out of the Basilica of The Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen) in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, October 24, 2019.

Spain is marking the 80th anniversary of the end of its civil war. It marked the beginning of Francisco Franco's fascist dictatorship, which lasted until his death in 1975.

On the very day Franco issued his decree, Madrid was swamped by royalist leaflets. Promptly, the city buzzed with rumors of widespread arrests. Freedom under Franco was still a castle in Spain.

The proud, hardy, melancholy farmers of Spain scratched the dry soil last week with ancient tools. The drought was one of the worst in modern times. In Barcelona, the shortage of hydroelectric ...

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.

After Franco’s death in 1975, Spain sought to balance its integration into the European ... under the PSOE-Podemos government, the Defence Ministry’s budget rose from 1 percent of GDP (€10 ...