The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...

It will probably be at least a hundred years before commentators as a whole will be able to write dispassionately about the man who has dominated the Spanish scene for the past thirty-six years, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wants the country to pay tribute to the victims of the fascist dictatorship, and learn from its past.

The Spanish autocrat was a cruel man. But his country was not worse off for having him as its leader.

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

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday became the first German head of state to visit the Spanish town of Guernica, ...

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

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will on Friday become the first German head of state to visit the Spanish town of Guernica, ...

General Francisco Franco pictured in the 1960s. The government on Wednesday announced a series of 480 concerts, conferences and exhibitions under the slogan "Spain at Liberty", celebrating the ...

General Francisco Franco pictured in the 1960s. The government on Wednesday announced a series of 480 concerts, conferences and exhibitions under the slogan "Spain at Liberty", celebrating the ...