Spain has received a surge of citizenship applications from descendants of emigrants who fled the country's 1930s civil war ...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wants the country to pay tribute to the victims of the fascist dictatorship, and learn from its past.

A new history and a memoir by the former King of Spain offer clues as to how a dictator with few qualities was able to remain in power so long ...

Last week marked 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. How does a democracy handle the ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's government has begun closing down the Francisco Franco foundation, a non-profit organisation set up by sympathisers of the late dictator, Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun ...

The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In forgetting his reign of terror and sanitizing his memory, we risk ...

Fifty years after his death, Franco's legacy continues to divide Spain - Copyright Regional Government of Melilla/AFP/File Javier BERNARDO Fifty years after his death ...

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 ...

Spain’s aging Generalissimo Franco dressed up recently in his fanciest uniform and medals to pay a visit to his home region of Galicia on the occasion of the annual feast in La Coruña to the Virgin of ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Cries of "long live Franco!" accompanied the laurel wreath-draped coffin of General Francisco Franco on Thursday as Spain removed the remains of its former dictator from the state ...

Ever since his great & good friends, Hitler & Mussolini, went down history’s drain, Spain’s Francisco Franco has suffered an international ostracism. In 1947, Argentina’s Evita Perón broke into his ...

As is well known, Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz—the legendary “Angel of Budapest”—rescued more than 5,000 Jews; yet what gets deliberately ignored today is that he acted with explicit authorization ...