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Political developments in Spain are moving in an increasingly dangerous direction. Eighty-five years after the fascist coup of 1936 led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco which sparked the three-year Spanish Civil War, during which the…

Of course, it was hard not to. The settler families who arrived in Llanos from 1955 had almost nothing; they had suffered from the extreme shortages of the 'turnaround decade' of the 1940s. Once in Llanos, and after years of…

Carmen Calvo, the Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Spain's fascist past, still remembers the first time she saw the monumental complex erected by the late dictator Francisco Franco."I saw a place built with forced labor for the glory…

A tribute to the Blue Division highlights the growing radicalization among young Spaniards. Neo-fascist Isabel Medina Peralta giving a Nazi salute after an anti-Semitic speech on February 13. (Source: Ruptly video) Dr Carmen…

On April 14, 1931, King Alfonso XIII went into exile and the Second Republic was proclaimed in Spain. With this, a new chapter was inaugurated in the history of the European country and also in its relations with Latin America.The…

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The following report is now a companion offering to MEMRI's Domestic Terrorist Threat Monitor (DTTM). For DTTM subscription information, Click here. On February 13, around 300 neo-Nazis gathered in Madrid to commemorate the Spanish…

The Spanish Civil War has left scars so far, dividing families and ideological movements from the far right to the far left. The troops and arms supply of Hitler and Mussolini brought Franco to power as a prelude to World War II.…

pathdoc / Shutterstock.com This story originally appeared on The Penny Hoarder. A payday loan can provide quick respite from unexpected expenses or a run of bad luck. But if you don't have enough money to repay the loan on your next…

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When one scratches beneath the surface, it becomes evident that many of these exonerations of the Franco regime as non-fascist potentially reflect academics' own blind spots and sexism - ignoring the central role of one of the most…

Would-be lenders have long attempted to evade state usury laws by using what are known as bank leasing programs: an out-of-state bank, which is not bound by interest rate caps in the state of the payday lender, acts as a…

National myths are subject to revision, sometimes remarkably quickly. From the mid-1930s, Fascist Spain overturned its own founding history extraordinarily quickly and against the existing scientific consensus. This revisionist…

For the more than 12 million Americans who take out payday loans each year, the debt doesn't end with their next paycheck. In fact, data from the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau shows that more than 80% of payday loans are rolled…

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Sunny became the latest high-profile payday lender to collapse in June following a wave of complaints over the mis-selling of short-term, high-cost loansMost victims will be left behindHalf a million people whose loans were mis-sold by!-->…

The crucial moment in any debate is when it must translate into a political decision. And there was a time when we had to make a political decision on this issue. That moment has come with the 2018 no-confidence motion . It happened…

For the millions of Americans struggling to afford an unexpected expense, high-interest payday and online loans may seem like acceptable options despite the inherent risk.But guidelines released by federal regulators in the spring could…

The flags were withdrawn after the intervention of the police in Sa Pobla.28-04-2020 The secretariat of the regional government for democratic memory imposed a fine of 2,001 euros on a resident of Sa Pobla for having hung two Franco…

the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Tuesday issued a final rule on payday loans, repealing Obama-era provisions that would have required lenders to ensure borrowers could repay their loans before issuing cash advances.To help ensure…

But what about the man himself? The task of finding the real Manuel Mena could not have been more difficult. His relatives burned his belongings, including his papers, after his death. Cercas managed to find an elderly couple of ladies…

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will remove Francisco Franco's remains from the state mausoleum where he rests on Thursday, as the socialist government seeks to end decades of controversy over the dictator's resting place.FILE PHOTO: Former…

José Antonio, a retired mechanic from Granada, in southern Spain, decided this week to say "one last goodbye" to Francisco Franco.So he drove the five and a half hours to the Basilica of the Valley of the Dead, a giant…

A stadium in the Spanish resort of Palma de Mallorca played a banned fascist anthem on Sunday amid controversy over the reintroduction of bullfighting on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The song, known as "Cara al Sol" or "Face au…

An academic recently unearthed a copy of the censorship report on the novel and sent it to Marías. “He was like, 'This book is crap and certainly immoral,'” Marías told me,…

A plaque was unveiled in Dublin in honor of the late Bob Doyle, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who fought with the International Brigade against Nationalist General Francisco Franco.…

THEOn the other side of a coffee table in his barrio in Barcelona, ​​Javier Cercas launches a tirade against the “national populist” perversions of the story he…

Spain's royal family gathered in force in Madrid today to mark the 40th anniversary of their country's constitution. Queen Letizia, 46, looked radiant in a fitted red dress as she joined her husband, King Felipe, 50, and their two…

Report from Madrid - At 92, historian Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz is an unlikely graffiti artist. But Tuesday, 70 years after being sent to a prison labor camp in a wave of repression by the Franco dictatorship in Spain for painting the…

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Yet Franco's satisfaction was short-lived. He had started to rewrite history to meet his needs - and over time his needs changed. By the end of the decade, the fascists had lost World War II and Franco's version of the Civil War had to…

The roots of Clapton CFC make it one of England's oldest football clubs. Previously Clapton FC, which was founded in 1877 in London, the club's new incarnation was recast in 2017 after issues in the boardroom and beyond (read their full…

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More informationHundreds of people gathered in the Valley of the Dead on Sunday to protest against the Spanish government's plan to remove the remains of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from the controversial monument north of…

MADRID (Reuters) - The remains of fascist dictator Francisco Franco may soon be removed from a state-funded mausoleum as part of a plan by Spain's new socialist government to turn the monument into a war memorial civilian rather than…

The Red Command (Comando Vermelho) is Brazil's oldest criminal group, established in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners. It all started with…

Article 155 is just two short paragraphs of the Spanish Constitution of 1978.Spain approved direct government in Catalonia after the Catalan parliament declared independence. This decision gives the government of Mariano Rajoy to trigger…

The President of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy, presented an institutional declaration at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Sunday October 1, 2017 (Works of the Spanish Government, Pool Moncloa / Diego Crespo). "Patriotism is the last…

It started to increase during the 20e century, especially since the dictator Francisco Franco centralized power in Madrid. When Franco died in 1975, one of his ministers, Manuel Fraga, created the Alianza Popular, a conservative party…

Although it is difficult to predict how the standoff between Catalonia and the Spanish government could play out, following a referendum marred by police brutality, an expert told Sputnik tensions between Madrid and the regions have always…

The European Commission has confirmed that the referendum on the independence of Catalonia was "not legal" under Spanish law.He described the vote, which saw police beat protesters and close polling stations, as an "internal affair" and…

On a Sunday morning, at a stall in the crowded Rastro flea market in Madrid, collector and journalist Javier Monjas asked the dealer: “Excuse me. How much do you want for that? »"Let's see," replied the salesman, eyeing the yellowed album…

More than a hundred people took part in Saturday's demonstration organized by the Spanish fascist movement, the Phalange More than a hundred people took part on Saturday in the demonstration organized by the!-->!-->…

As the Wehrmacht launched its offensive against the USSR in the summer of 1941, a contingent of Spanish musicians and critics traveled to Bad Elster, on the border between Bavaria and Bohemia. In the spa town, they participated…

Anaïs Huerta, whose great-uncle was allegedly murdered by Falangists in 1936.More informationThe family of a Spanish labor leader who was allegedly executed by Falangist forces during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 has filed a complaint…

Chichester, England In October 1938, Picasso's monumental “Guernica” was exhibited in London and impressed many spectators with its dazzling indignation. But British artists were…

A small group of Limerick men who fought against Franco and fascism during the Spanish Civil War are to be honored in their hometown next weekend with the unveiling of a special memorial to those…

The announcement of the abdication of King Juan Carlos immediately sparked a heated debate in Spain about the advantages of the monarchy and the need to change the political system. Tens of thousands of young people for the most part took…

SPain in the 1930s greeted the first violent clash between conflicting ideologies of the century. Writers such as George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux and Arthur Koestler became passionate witnesses to a complex…

Sitting outside a bar in central Madrid, a group of middle-aged women sip beers, loudly exchanging jokes to cheer themselves up on a rainy Saturday night.An elegantly dressed young woman approaches to ask them for directions. Stepping…