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 ...

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

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honoured Nazi war victims in Guernica on Friday, becoming the first German leader to visit ...

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will on Friday become the first German head of state to visit the Spanish town of Guernica, ...

The left lauded Nov. 20, when Francisco Franco was declared dead after his family removed life support, as a bright day for ...

Fifty years ago, General Francisco Franco died in his bed at El Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, after more than a third of a ...

Under Franco’s dictatorial regime, women’s roles were rigidly controlled by the ideology of National Catholicism, which linked femininity, motherhood and loyalty to the state. The church reinforced ...

The enormous, black-grey-and-white painting features screaming women, flailing horses and a gored bull. Picasso used them to ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Spain and stopped to see Pablo Picasso's “Guernica” in Madrid. The painting, ...

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MADRID - Young people in Spain are increasingly seduced by General Francisco Franco 50 years after the dictator’s death, often unaware of his harsh rule and influenced by propaganda permeating social ...