but the crimes have been shielded under an amnesty law passed two years after Franco's death, protecting former members of the regime. The United Nations, which sent a working group to Spain to ...

Eighty-five years after her father's execution by Franco's forces, Josefina Fortea receives his remains, bringing closure to her family. The story sheds light on Spain's ongoing struggle to reckon ...

To celebrate the achievement of rapidly consolidating democracy in Spain after 40 years of Francisco Franco's dictatorship ... which believes that "the 1978 regime has a Francoist DNA running ...

Spain's conservative opposition will boycott ... The polarising memory of the 1936-1939 civil war and Franco stems from the regime's tame demise, according to Joan Maria Thomas, professor of ...

Paradoxically, the UN required democratic conditions from Spain that it never asked of the Polish communist dictatorship (author of the petition that gave rise to this resolution) nor of the other ...

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco.

Luis Buñuel returned to Spain after years of exile to film 'Viridiana ... directly challenged the conservative values of the Franco regime and the Catholic Church. After its completion ...

Under his regime, if a leftist ... certain that the future king would keep Spain on its authoritarian path. But Franco badly misjudged his chosen successor. After the dictator’s death, Juan ...

The half that came of age and worked under the shadow of Francisco Franco’s authoritarian ... of its nationalist agenda, the regime marketed Spain’s abstract artists as members of an ...