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.

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 ...

8, 2025 (Europa Press photo by Eduardo Parra via AP). This year marks 50 years since Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco died, ending his 36-year iron grip on the country and giving way to ...

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco ... the tri-colour flag of the Second Spanish Republic that Franco overthrew.

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 ...