Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday presided over the first in a year-long series of events to mark 50 years ...

Madrid (AFP) – Spain's conservative opposition will boycott the start of official commemorations marking the 50th anniversary of right-wing dictator Francisco Franco's death, laying bare the ...

Remembering Franco's death was "positive" because today's Spain "does not keep in mind the importance of recovering a democratic system in 1977 and being able to consolidate it", he said.

Spain’s conservative opposition will boycott the start of official commemorations marking the 50th anniversary of right-wing dictator Francisco Franco’s death, laying bare the enduring ...

The Spanish government plans to turn a monument to fascist dictator General Francisco Franco into a cemetery for people who died on both sides of the Spanish Civil War. The removal of the monument ...

Hundreds of thousands died or disappeared during Spain's civil war and Franco’s subsequent 36-year dictatorship United Nations has called for Spain to overturn a 1977 amnesty law that pardons ...

Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war ... who would take over when he died? He wanted a successor who would carry on his vision of Spain as a deeply conservative Catholic ...

Why are Francisco Franco’s remains being exhumed ... Between 1936 and 1939, more than 500,000 people died in clashes between rebel nationalist forces led by General Franco and defenders of ...

The far-right Vox party had argued against removing the statue The last statue of General Francisco ... Franco ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. More than 350,000 people died in ...