Hundreds of thousands died or disappeared during Spain's civil war and Franco’s subsequent 36-year dictatorship United Nations has called for Spain to overturn a 1977 amnesty law that pardons ...

Sunday’s ceremony at the cemetery in Valencia suburb Paterna featured urns draped in the tri-colour flag of ... Republic that Franco overthrew. Several sources estimate that Spain has the ...

The history of Spanish football is the history of Spain ... the Catalan flag from their badge, while the speaking of Catalan, Galician and Basque languages was forbidden as Franco sought to ...

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.

For two years, Dictator Francisco Franco had been “on his best behavior. Spain’s bid for associate membership in the Common Market was at stake, and el Caudillo was willing to relax his ...