A spike in support for Spain's far right is reviving memories of late dictator Francisco Franco and burnishing his legacy ...

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and ...

For the stocky little general with the impassive face, it was a day of memory and triumph. Exactly 25 years ago, with the Spanish Civil War not yet three months old, an army junta met in the Old ...

MADRID, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Spain will on Thursday remove the remains of Francisco Franco from the state mausoleum where he lies buried, as the Socialist government seeks to end decades of controversy ...

“Franco or the street cleaner,” boasted an official of Spain’s Ministry of the Interior, “every voter is entitled to the same treatment.” Well, not exactly. Some 8,000,000 Spanish “heads of families” ...

BRUTAL DICTATOR — FRANCISCO FRANCO BAHAMONDE, BORN DEC. 4, 1892 IN GALICIA, SPAIN, WAS A MILITARY DICTATOR WHO LED THE 1936 COUP THAT TOPPLED THE REPUBLIC OF SPAIN and dragged his country into a three ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will on Thursday remove the remains of Francisco Franco from the state mausoleum where he lies buried, as the Socialist government seeks to end decades of controversy over the ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will on Thursday remove the remains of Francisco Franco from the state mausoleum where he lies buried, as the Socialist government seeks to end decades of controversy over the ...