And neither should this despot who is enjoying growing prestige even outside Spain, among far right movements like the American Trumpists, who see in Franco an even more interesting historical ...

During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain, Franco was single-minded in his drive to decimate the Spanish left. Under his regime, if a leftist woman had a baby while imprisoned ...

The Spanish Civil War came to an end on April 1, 1939, just days after Francisco Franco’s Nationalist troops entered Madrid. By the time the capital fell, following a long siege, the war’s ...

but the crimes have been shielded under an amnesty law passed two years after Franco's death, protecting former members of the regime. The United Nations, which sent a working group to Spain to ...

Indeed, Los Blancos are often depicted as being the favoured team of General Francisco Franco - the dictator who ruled Spain from the late 1930s until his death in 1975 - and his regime.

Paraguayan president Federico Franco accused the Venezuelan regime of Hugo Chavez of ‘direct and malicious’ involvement in his country’s affairs in support of a ‘terrorist and criminal ...