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A far-right party will hold a share of power in Spain for the first time since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, with the Voice party gaining a place in a coalition leading the regional government of Castile and Leon. Alonso Fernandez…

MADRID, March 10 (Reuters) - A far-right party will hold a share of power in Spain for the first time since Francisco Franco's dictatorship, with the Vox party securing a place in a coalition leading the regional government of Castile and…

MADRID - A family that took court to ensure that a quarter of their five-year-old's primary school classes were taught in Spanish were offered police protection Wednesday after saying they were harassed and abused. The family, of…

The mausoleum of the phalangist José María Albiñana in Enguera, in the Spanish region of Valencia.Matias Alonso Josefina Barrón, also known as Pepita, is the daughter of…

In a detailed report titled “Super Yunior, Cuban Dictatorship, Freedom of the Press and Other Fallacies,” LaTercerainformación.es, which promotes a counter-hegemonic analysis platform,…

GUADALAJARA, Spain - Carillets in hand, Julio López del Campo, 94, has come decade after decade to mark the spot where he believes the body of his brother, Mariano, was thrown into a pit with others victims of the brutality of…

In the age of global threats, nations must unite their efforts to deal with wars, climate change and the CV-19 pandemic. Despite the obvious need for an international response to current threats, some countries are taking the opposite,…

The two parties that make up the coalition government in Spain, the Socialist Party (PSOE) and junior partner Unidas Podemos, have tabled an amendment to the Democratic Remembrance Bill which aims to ensure that crimes committed during the…

Gertrudis Sommer Ficher died in the Spanish coastal town of Dénia, in the region of Valencia, in 2005. She had no heirs and left no will. Once the deadline for issuing complaints had passed and legal procedures had been…

Villa Rodolfo Martín Argentinian judge María Servini de Cubría has indicted Rodolfo Martín Villa, 87, former minister of the Spanish Franco fascist regime from 1939-1978, with four counts of…

The Spaniards will never teach the Germans a lesson in how to deal with a traumatic past. The documentary Franco: The brutal truth about the Spanish dictator, produced by German public broadcaster ZDF and available on Netflix, attracts…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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.…

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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…