Spain remained under Franco’s control until his death in 1975. The nation would transition to democracy within a few years. Picasso died in 1973. He stipulated that Guernica not be shown in ...

But sometimes it sparkles under the hooves ... Know more • As Spain prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator Francisco Franco's death and the return of democracy, Prime Minister ...

Monday’s verdict is Spain’s first in relation to the abduction of thousands of children during the country’s Civil War and the decades of General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship that followed.

THE border between Spain and Gibraltar reopened 40 years ago last week, after 16 long years of Spanish dictator General ...

Paint was daubed on this statue in Madrid commemorating the founder of Spain's ruling Socialist party, Pablo Iglesias "Long live Franco" and "Desecrators" were painted in graffiti on the Madrid ...

Remembering Franco's death was "positive" because today's Spain "does not keep in mind the importance of recovering a democratic system in 1977 and being able to consolidate it", he said.

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 head of the Soviet delegation was Leonid Sedov. We saw him at the airport on Saturday afternoon, and we knew nothing about the launch because in Spain under Franco they didn’t allow British papers ...