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 ...

The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...

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 ...

Spain ’s self-exiled former king, Juan Carlos, has angered the country’s royal household with a video message released just ...

The Spanish autocrat was a cruel man. But his country was not worse off for having him as its leader.

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 ...

Under Franco’s dictatorial regime, women’s roles were rigidly controlled by the ideology of National Catholicism, which ...

Disgraced Spanish ex-king Juan Carlos I on Monday appeared in an unexpected video aimed at young people days before his ...

However, 60% of young citizens claimed to "have no religion" in a new survey published Nov. 26, while church leaders have ...

Fifty years after Francisco Franco's death, Spain witnesses a troubling revival of far-right sentiments among young voters, ...

Valencia; firearms, knives, tactical gear and extremist material seized by law enforcement; police say cell leader was in ...

Walter Steinmeier on Friday became the first German head of state to visit the Spanish town of Guernica, where Nazi bombers ...