Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde—Gen. Franco to you and me; Caudillo de España, or chieftain of Spain, to his countrymen—died on Nov. 20, 1975. His death—of natural ...

Contributor Omar G. Encarnación is a professor at Bard College. His new book is Framing Equality: The Politics of Gay Marriage Wars. On Jan. 8, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the Reina ...

50 years after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, the dictator remains a divisive figure in Spain. The government of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced this week it would ...

Granada, Spain - This summer, Marina Roldan, a lawyer from Granada in southern Spain, finally got the phone call her family had waited decades for. The body of Fermin Roldan Garcia, her grandfather, ...

A 1975 photo shows Francisco Franco (far right), his wife Carmen Polo (middle) and Prince Juan Carlos (left) at a public event. (Fotograaf Onbekend/Anefo via Wikimedia Commons) (CN) — Spain marked a ...

Franco nostalgia swells among disaffected Spanish youth amid cost-of-living and housing crises Social media spreads AI Franco clips and revisionist narratives Significant minority now view Franco era ...

Francisco Franco figure in the Wax Museum, Barcelona. Credit: Yuri Turkov, Shutterstock. Spain is marking the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with official tributes, regional events, and ...

As Spain marks half a century since the death of General Francisco Franco this week, a significant number of young people now view the brutal Spanish dictator in a positive light. Far from reviling ...

Spain’s 50-year reckoning with Franco is mired in a new culture war, with a fifth of Spaniards viewing the dictatorship positively and parties clashing over how to confront its legacy Souvenirs of ...

Paul Preston, 79, admits that he increasingly dislikes talking about Francisco Franco, a figure he has studied for so many years and yet cannot find any appealing angle to. Yet the historian — one of ...

There’s a strange circular relationship between the authoritarian movement in America symbolized or spearheaded by Donald Trump — whether or not he is truly its leader — and the European far right. It ...

Franco Mostert is the second Springboks lock to be red carded in a Test match in as many weekends following his tackle on Italy’s Paolo Garbisi. Much like Lood de Jager’s permanent red card against ...