It will probably be at least a hundred years before commentators as a whole will be able to write dispassionately about the man who has dominated the Spanish scene for the past thirty-six years, ...

MADRID, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Flor Baena has spent decades trying to clear the name of her brother Jose Humberto, who was one of the last five people executed under General Francisco Franco's fascist ...

A Spanish court has ruled that the family of the late dictator General Francisco Franco is entitled to keep a treasure trove of artifacts claimed by the state. In a statement published Tuesday, the ...

MADRID, July 20 (Reuters) - The Spanish government on Tuesday approved a new "Democratic Memory" bill to tackle the legacy of General Francisco Franco's 1939-1975 dictatorship and the civil war that ...

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 ...