Julius Ruiz: “The fear of Franco’s fifth column explains the massacre of Paracuellos”
The historian and Hispanist Julius Ruiz, professor at the University of Edinburgh, delves into The dirty war (Espasa) in the ...
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The headquarters of the Government of Madrid, a torture room during Franco’s regime, will be declared a place of memory
This Thursday, the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory began the procedure to declare the Puerta del Sol building ...
The songs banned by Franco’s regime sound again as an anthem against the extreme right
In the summer of 1961, a group made up of seven young Italian musicians entered Franco's Spain with a mission: ...
‘Colonization’, by M. Armingol and L. Debat, and ‘Franco’s towns’, by Antonio Cazorla: portrait of new municipalities
In an unforgettable scene from 'The Rats', Miguel Delibes described the hard work of several brigades of rural workers who ...
This swamp is inaugurated: the forced labor of Franco’s political prisoners in Benagéber
On any given weekend, after driving almost 100 kilometers from the city of València, we arrived at the town of ...
Two years of Democratic Memory law: “The PSOE does not have the courage to end Franco’s impunity”
Two years have passed since the Democratic Memory Law. Public has prepared a debate with experts and representatives of memorial ...
The PP blames the PSOE for the “spectacle” in which Le Senne expelled two deputies who were carrying images of Franco’s victims
The Balearic Government of the PP has accused this Friday the PSIB-PSOE of being “very interested in generating confrontation and ...
The other struggle of the ’47’ driver: finding his father murdered by Franco’s regime
“My grandfather did not stop looking for his father.” It is told by Joana Vital, the granddaughter of Manuel Vital, ...