Across the Straits of Gibraltar from Spanish Morocco, Generalissimo Franco rushed 14,000 more troops, some of them foreign volunteers and tatterdemalion striplings.

Survivors demand state apology, compensation Centres took unwed mothers, women accused of failings Catholic organisation says ceremony was first step Spain struggling with legacy of Franco, civil ...

Survivors of Spain's Franco-era 'fallen women' centres seek apology, recognition. By Silvio Castellanos and Eva Mañez. June 6, 2025 6:26 PM UTC Updated ago Summary; Catholic body ...

Women Who Survived Spain's Franco-Era Centres Disrupt Catholic Apology By Emma Pinedo and Silvio Castellanos MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish women who were forced into rehabilitation centres during the ...

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish women who were forced into rehabilitation centres during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco broke up a Catholic meeting held to offer them a apology and demanded more ...

MADRID/VALENCIA - Consuelo Garcia del Cid was 16 when the family doctor came into her bedroom in Barcelona, Spain with her mother in 1974, grabbed her left arm and pushed a needle into a vein ...

Survivors of Spain's Franco-Era 'Fallen Women' Centres Seek Apology, Recognition. More. Reuters. Consuelo Garcia del Cid, 66, poses for a portrait in her living room in Madrid, Spain, April 24, 2025.

MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish women who were forced into rehabilitation centres during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco broke up a Catholic meeting held to offer them a apology and demanded more ...