Even with the 40% increase in pay ordered by the government last year, the workers of Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's Spain remained the most meanly paid in Western Europe (average: $1.60 a ...

Though Generalissimo Francisco Franco has ruled Spain for 25 years, he has always insisted that the country is a monarchy, his own role merely that of a regent who would ultimately restore the king.

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.

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 … ...

Franco ruled Spain between 1939 and 1975, after he and other officers led a military insurrection against the Spanish democratic government in 1936, a move that started a three-year civil war.

On a quiet morning at the foot of the imposing mausoleum where the remains of Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco lie, a lone man lifted a red and yellow flag high above his head.

Spain exhumes the remains of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid, the Valle de los Caidos, for reburial in a small family crypt.

SAN LORENZO DE EL ESCORIAL, Spain—When María Oliva Ibáñez attended dictator Francisco Franco’s interment in 1975, she thought she was witnessing the end of an era that would remain buried ...