Eighty-five years after her father's execution by Franco's forces, Josefina Fortea receives his remains, bringing closure to her family. The story sheds light on Spain's ongoing struggle to reckon ...
PATERNA, Spain - Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General ...
ITV airs a Long Lost Family special about the devastating Spanish Baby Scandal, but what exactly happened and what have the affected families said?
During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain, Franco was single-minded in his drive to decimate the Spanish left. Under his regime, if a leftist woman had a baby while imprisoned ...
The Argentine judge had launched an investigation, at the behest of Spanish memory associations, into crimes against humanity during the Franco regime. Reuters Ascensión (R) was present in ...
While Franco’s regime discouraged artists to work beyond the confines of the realist artistic tradition, starting in the mid-1950s, it began co-opting the success of the nation’s abstract ...
The film's subversive content, including scenes such as a parody of 'The Last Supper' starring beggars, directly challenged the conservative values of the Franco regime and the Catholic Church.
After the death of Franco, his regime remained in place before its weakness and the clamour for change led to democratic elections in 1977, with the creation of a new constitution the following year.
Paraguayan president Federico Franco accused the Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chavez of ‘direct and malicious’ involvement in his country’s affairs in support of a ‘terrorist and criminal ...
Franco's death was the first step for Spain towards a complex democratic transition, which included several key moments, such as the first free elections after the de facto period on 15 June 1977 ...