Thousands of girls and young women who were accused of perceived moral failings - from pregnancies outside marriage to ...

Consuelo Garcia del Cid was 16 when the family doctor came into her bedroom in Barcelona, Spain with her mother in 1974, ...

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of parliament ... Outlawing the nearly 40-year Franco regime that emerged after the end of the civil war in 1939, the new law nullifies the legality of ...

Zoom in to see more places mentioned in the story In 1977, two years after Franco’s death, Spain’s parliament passed an amnesty law. It declared that members of the regime could not be ...

Franco’s regime is rightly proud of its sprawling ... the Spanish economy and implement the 1959 stabilization plan after Spain’s disastrous inflation. The plan worked. The soaring prices ...

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 ...

The "democratic memory" law approved in 2022 by Spain's Socialist government prohibits any organisation that is seen to glorify or promote the 1939-1975 Franco regime. A judge will make the final ...

After Franco's death, Spain underwent a transition to democracy. But a sweeping amnesty law passed by parliament in 1977 shielded both former regime officials and anti-Franco activists from ...

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 ...

MADRIDMADRID — Spain’s lower house of parliament ... Outlawing the nearly 40-year Franco regime that emerged after the end of the civil war in 1939, the new law nullifies the legality of ...