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It looks like a taxi driver has Guillermo del Toro's triple Oscar-winning achievement to thank Pan's Labyrinth. On Wednesday night, del Toro joined the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures for a 15th anniversary celebration…

Alfonso Fernandez Manueco (Salamanca, 1965) attends the regional elections of Castile and León with the aim of making the PP the most voted list and not depending on the support of other parties to govern after having definitively broken…

Two single women, middle-aged Janis (Penélope Cruz) and teenage Ana (Milena Smit), meet at the hospital and befriend each other over similar situations. As they leave with their babies, their lives are about to become intertwined in…

Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit | Sony Pictures ClassicsPenélope Cruz and Milena Smit | Sony Pictures ClassicsWhenever there is food in Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, Parallel mothers, now in theaters it looks luxurious. In one of the first!-->!-->…

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…

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…

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…

It is very difficult to bring the story to life, and there are many films that have surprisingly managed to accomplish this difficult task through horror films. Horror films tend to be more frightening when given a cultural context…

MADRID (JTA) - In an unprecedented effort to find loved ones and share their stories, Spanish authorities release a list of Hungarian Jews protected from the Nazis by a diplomat nicknamed the “Spanish…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…