MADRID (AP) — Spain’s lower house of parliament has approved a new historical memory law that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco and makes the central government ...

The skull of one of the two victims who were shot in 1936 by the forces of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the exhumation of a mass grave by members of the Association for the Recovery of ...

Spanish military dictator General Francisco Franco on Aug. 27, 1937. Credit - Hulton Archive / Getty Images Standing in front of a banner that read “Spain at Liberty,” Sánchez announced 100 events ...

MADRID — Franco is dead, but he could be revived. For long, Francoism has been a past with more or less robust remains, like the last and annoying phlegm of a serious cold: the judiciary and the ...

For 36 years General Francisco Franco, whose remains are to be exhumed on Thursday, ruled Spain with an iron fist during one of Europe's longest dictatorships. He assumed power after Spain's 1936-39 ...

She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship. By Adam Nossiter Una nueva ley de amnistía podría ser un remedio para la ...

MADRID, June 12 (Reuters) - Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government ...

Spain could be about to be governed by a coalition that includes a far-right party for the first time since the Francisco Franco dictatorship ended in 1975, propelled in part by frustration ...

Former King Juan Carlos's memoirs went on sale in Spain on Wednesday, with the publication's warm words for the late dictator Franco stirring debate over the former monarch's legacy. Esther Gil, an ...