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 divisiveness of ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Like today’s Iraq and Syria, the combatants fought amongst themselves as well as the enemy. The Nationalists were a collection of conservatives, monarchists ...

As Spain prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator Francisco Franco's death and the return of democracy, fascism is returning around the world. It's proof, as philosopher Walter Benjamin said, ...

Across the spectrum, political analysts and former Spanish politicians say militarism just isn’t great politics. Madrid is ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, police arrested the second suspect facing charges for an alleged murder Dec. 23 in northeast Albuquerque.

What about the second half? The half that came of age and worked under the shadow of Francisco Franco’s authoritarian rule? Their story is told February 26 through June 18, 2023, at the Meadows ...

Socialist Pedro Sanchez's government opened the commemorations of the dictator's death on Wednesday, in the absence of the ...

Francisco Garcia-Franco was taken into custody around 10 p.m. in a hotel parking lot near El Paso International Airport. He ...

George Orwell is commemorated on the 75th anniversary of his death with a series of coins from the Royal Mint in several options, featuring a symbolic representation of a quotation from his writings.

Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war to win control of Spain. Driven by a deeply conservative vision, he used torture, murder and incarceration to transform Spanish Society.