A new history and a memoir by the former King of Spain offer clues as to how a dictator with few qualities was able to remain in power so long ...

Spain has received a surge of citizenship applications from descendants of emigrants who fled the country's 1930s civil war ...

Spain has received a surge of citizenship applications from descendants of emigrants who fled the country's 1930s civil war ...

Last week marked 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. How does a democracy handle the ...

King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicated and left for exile years ago. Now, his attempted comeback is giving his family a royal ...

The Law of Democratic Memory has unleashed an avalanche of applications for Spanish nationality, with more than 1 million ...

The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In forgetting his reign of terror and sanitizing his memory, we risk ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's government has begun closing down the Francisco Franco foundation, a non-profit organisation set up by sympathisers of the late dictator, Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun ...

Former King Juan Carlos’s memoirs went on sale in Spain yesterday, with the publication’s warm words for the late dictator ...

As is well known, Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz—the legendary “Angel of Budapest”—rescued more than 5,000 Jews; yet what gets deliberately ignored today is that he acted with explicit authorization ...

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 ...

Spain’s aging Generalissimo Franco dressed up recently in his fanciest uniform and medals to pay a visit to his home region of Galicia on the occasion of the annual feast in La Coruña to the Virgin of ...