This year marks 50 years since Spain's former dictator Francisco Franco died, ending his 36-year iron grip on the country and giving way to what has been widely lauded as a model transition to ...

Headstones are gathered together in the municipal cemetery in Paterna, Spain, after being moved to make way for exhumation work. The headstones show executed men peering from portraits. The exhumation ...

Spain has received a surge of citizenship applications from descendants of emigrants who fled the country's 1930s civil war ...

As Spain marks half a century since the death of General Francisco Franco this week, a significant number of young people now view the brutal Spanish dictator in a positive light. Far from being ...

Santiago Abascal, leader of the Spanish far-right party Vox, speaks during the Europa Viva 24 convention of far-right leaders, in Madrid, Spain, May 20, 2025 (Sipa photo by Alberto Gardin via AP ...

Contributor Omar G. Encarnación is a professor at Bard College. His new book is Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars. On Jan. 8, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the Reina ...

A spike in support for Spain's far right is reviving memories of late dictator Francisco Franco and burnishing his legacy ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco – and, as revisionist takes on his regime proliferate on social media, the Spanish government is making a concerted ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Cries of "long live Franco!" accompanied the laurel wreath-draped coffin of General Francisco Franco on Thursday as Spain removed the remains of its former dictator from the state ...

At 62 General Francisco Franco is in good health, but his influential religious mentors, who take a long view of history, worry about his succession. Seven years ago they persuaded Franco to ...