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People shout slogans as they hold banners of missing and dead relatives during a protest to demand justice for victims of Franco ... of Franco-era crimes in 2013 REUTERS/Susana Vera Spain's ...
The burial place of Spain's fascist dictator General Francisco Franco has been ... crimes Democracy is well established now, but the Franco era still haunts Spain. There was an unwritten "pact ...
Lying in state at the Valle de los Caídos, a huge basilica outside Madrid, Spain’s former fascist ... some radical legislation to address the Franco era. The most important was the Historical ...
An 85-year-old doctor will appear in a Madrid court Tuesday, the first person to stand trial over an alleged practice that saw thousands of babies stolen under Spain’s military dictatorship ...
We live in an era ... Spain, far-right Vox is considered the living legacy of Franco, using the same narratives about Spanish identity and national origins. Despite losing seats at the last ...
MADRID, Spain (AP) — Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco ... some waving Franco-era flags and symbols and chanting “Viva Franco” gathered near the ...
Many Franco-era torturers have died without ... The epic struggle of the victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they seek justice to this day.
A palace where Spain’s longtime ruler, the late General Francisco Franco ... for the recovery of historical memory about the Franco era. Fight not over However, Francis Franco, one of the ...
(Courthouse News photo/Cain Burdeau) MADRID (AFP) — A court in Spain has shelved the first case and only probe into alleged torture under the dictatorship of General Francisco ... and tortured during ...
MADRID (Reuters) - The United Nations called on Monday for Spain to overturn a 1977 amnesty law that pardons crimes committed during the 36-year dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
Fifties-era Venezuelan autocrat ... political ideology of which Franco was an adherent. The exhumation — carried out weeks before Spain’s fourth general election in four years — was meant ...
Manuel Fraga Iribarne - the last surviving senior politician from General Franco's era in Spain - has died at his home in Madrid, aged 89. Mr Fraga died of heart failure, a family member was ...