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Spanish artist Eugenio Merino and a U.S. art collective used a lifelike replica of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's head ...
Spain's fierce passion for football took an unexpected turn on Thursday as two teams faced off playing with an unusual ball: ...
SPAIN (See Cover) The end of the Franco era in Spain is near. Just how near no one can say, for the dictator has proved himself immensely durable. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since El ...
An election Sunday could make Spain the latest nation in Europe to swing to the right, with the radical Vox party entering into a ruling coalition.
Franco died in 1975, aged 82, after ruling Spain for nearly four decades. The first free elections were held in 1977 and a new constitution passed by referendum in 1978.
On a mountain 28 miles northwest of Madrid last week assembled the flower of Franco Spain—Cabinet ministers, generals, admirals, all of the nation's four cardinals, 37 of its bishops, six ...
Women Who Survived Spain's Franco-Era Centres Disrupt Catholic Apology By Emma Pinedo and Silvio Castellanos MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish women who were forced into rehabilitation centres during the ...
Franco emerged from the civil war as the leader of a nationalist faction that sought to re-establish Spain’s constitutional monarchy. But instead of restoring the king, Franco installed himself ...
Survivors of Spain's Franco-Era 'Fallen Women' Centres Seek Apology, Recognition. More. Reuters. Consuelo Garcia del Cid, 66, poses for a portrait in her living room in Madrid, Spain, April 24, 2025.
In 1971, four years before the death of Francisco Franco, President Richard Nixon sent a high-level envoy to Madrid to suss out what might happen to Spain after its long-lived dictator was gone.It ...