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 ...

Thousands of residents were forced out of their homes in a small town nearly 60 years ago and today it remains empty.

Paradoxically, the UN required democratic conditions from Spain that it never asked of the Polish communist dictatorship (author of the petition that gave rise to this resolution) nor of the other ...

PATERNA, Spain - Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General ...

Seven years ago they persuaded Franco to promulgate a law declaring Spain to be “a Catholic and social state which, in accordance with its tradition, is constituted a monarchy.” But Franco ...

If you work in Spain or have applied for jobs here, you might’ve noticed that some jobs pay their salaries in 14 payments rather than the usual 12. Where does this quirk come from and do all workers ...

It also seeks to shroud ongoing investigations into Franco regime murders in more secrecy ... This sparked the creation of Spain’s Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory and led ...

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 ...

Franco’s greatest contribution to contemporary ... diplomacy as a key component of its nationalist agenda, the regime marketed Spain’s abstract artists as members of an international avant ...

LA LINEA'S mayor has expressed his 'healthy envy' of how the UK treats Gibraltar, contrasting it sharply with Spain's ...