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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez makes surprise visit to exhumation site at infamous Civil War monument in Madrid

SPAIN’S Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made a surprise visit today to the Valley of Cuelgamuros monument, where he saw first hand exhumation work that is currently taking place to remove

4 Apr, 2024 @ 13:53

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La Liga’s Vox-voting boss insists Spain is ‘NOT racist’, despite rising abuse inside football grounds

LA Liga president Javier Tebas has claimed that Spain is less racist than ‘any other country’, despite a rise in racist abuse inside football grounds. “If we compare ourselves with other countries’

22 Mar, 2024 @ 12:13

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Almost 100 victims of Spain’s dark Franco era are discovered in Granada: Remains show signs of torture and bullet wounds to the head

A SERIES of excavations have unearthed the harrowing remains of dozens of victims of the Franco regime in a ravine of ‘horror, death, and tragedy’. A third excavation in the Viznar site,

11 Sep, 2023 @ 13:30

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Popular Party candidate for prime minister pledges to prohibit summer elections if he wins office

THE POPULAR PARTY’S candidate for prime minister, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, on Thursday pledged to prohibit general elections from taking place in the summer months of July or August should he take office.

20 Jul, 2023 @ 18:00

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LORCA’S LEGACY: On the trail of the famous poet in Spain’s Granada

JUNE 2023 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Frederico García Lorca. One of Spain’s most celebrated literary figures, the influential poet and playwright was born on June 5, 1898, at

17 Jun, 2023 @ 09:50

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HUNGER ERA: How Spain’s hidden famine of the 1930s and 40s changed a whole nation’s eating habits

EVERYONE has heard of the Spanish Civil War, but historians have largely glossed over the devastating famine that followed. Barely discussed, like a dark secret, the hunger years – from 1939 to

10 Jun, 2023 @ 10:00

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Barcelona mayor Ada Colau casts her vote

Spaniards brave the rain to vote in 2023 regional and local elections

MILLIONS OF SPANIARDS braved rain showers to keep their date with the polling booths on Sunday, as elections were held in 12 of the country’s 17 regions (Valencia, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha, the

28 May, 2023 @ 17:54

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Judge pauses exhumations of Franco victims from controversial mausoleum in Spain

Falangists give fascist salutes as they pay homage to Primo de Rivera in Madrid

WITH THEIR arms raised in fascist salutes, around 200 people paid homage on Saturday to the founder of Spain’s Falange party, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, in his new burial site in

30 Apr, 2023 @ 14:30

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Despite exhumation from war monument, Franco and his new resting place are still costing the Spanish state €10,000 a year

IN OCTOBER 2019, the Spanish government finally moved the body of former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen monument, transferring the remains to the El Pardo-Mingorrubio municipal cemetery in

28 Apr, 2023 @ 17:15

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Founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Primo de Rivera, to be exhumed from monument on Monday

THE REMAINS of the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, are to be exhumed by his family from the Valley of the Fallen monument on Monday. That’s

20 Apr, 2023 @ 17:15

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Picasso Museum of Malaga accused of whitewashing Francoism

THE Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has called on the Junta to ‘stop whitewashing’ Francoism. The criticism revolves around an explanatory panel in the Picasso Museum of Malaga which

14 Apr, 2023 @ 08:15

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Police officer in Spain faces sexual abuse charge for grabbing breasts of Femen protestor

AN OFFICER from Spain’s National Police force has been called to appear in court to face accusations of sexual abuse after he grabbed the breasts of a topless protestor at a demonstration

12 Apr, 2023 @ 19:30

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A story of change: Spain’s move to democracy and the women’s rights that followed

While men and women are treated equally by law, many women still report sexist behaviour and ‘machista’ attitudes. Some of the most outmoded attitudes hark back to the Franco era when, in

8 Mar, 2023 @ 17:00

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Spain’s government strips notorious police torturer of medals

THE SPANISH government has ordered all of the medals and other decorations received by Franco-era police officers to be revised, including those of the notorious torturer known as ‘Billy the Kid’. According

1 Jan, 2023 @ 14:15

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Exhumations of Republican soldiers to restart at Spain’s Civil War ‘monument’ after legal appeals from right-wing groups flounder

A TEAM of forensic scientists that has been recruited by the Spanish central government will on Monday restart work to recover the bodies of 110 victims of the Civil War at the

4 Dec, 2022 @ 13:30

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Spanish government sets its sights on Franco-era figures buried in Toledo for next exhumations

SOURCES from the Spanish government have confirmed to reporters that they are already studying the next exhumations of Franco-era military figures, after three coffins were removed from La Macarena basilica in Seville

5 Nov, 2022 @ 12:45

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Franco-era general responsible for 45,000 executions quietly exhumed from basilica in Seville

THE REMAINS of a Franco-era general were removed from the Macarena basilica in Seville last night, an exhumation that was carried out as part of the recently approved Democratic Memory Law. The

3 Nov, 2022 @ 16:11

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Mps In Spain Back New Law To Enshrine Memory Of People Killed By Brutal General Franco Regime

Spain’s government to strip Franco and nine other figures from the regime of medals

THE SPANISH government announced on Thursday that it is to strip former dictator Francisco Franco of the Medal of Merit in Labour, an award that was granted to people who had excelled

27 Oct, 2022 @ 16:30

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Explainer: What will be the effects of Spain’s new Democratic Memory Law?

EARLIER this month, the Socialist Party-led central government approved a new piece of legislation: the Democratic Memory Law. The legislation passed with 128 votes in favour, 113 votes against and 18 abstentions

12 Oct, 2022 @ 12:45

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Founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party to be exhumed from Valley of the Fallen by family

THE family of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, has announced that it will privately exhume the politician’s remains from the Valley of the Fallen monument,

12 Oct, 2022 @ 09:45

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Spain’s Prado Museum pledges to return artworks that were stolen during the Civil War and Franco dictatorship

Madrid’s Prado Museum, which is home to works by Goya, El Greco and Velázquez, has announced that it wants to return the artworks it holds that were seized during the Spanish Civil

28 Sep, 2022 @ 17:15

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Grandson of Republican colonel embarks on quest to recover paintings stolen by Franco regime

IN the wake of the Spanish Civil War, Republican Colonel José Sicardo Jiménez- Córdova and his wife Mariana Carderera had little choice but to flee their home country and go into exile,

22 Sep, 2022 @ 14:32

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Spain’s solicitor general takes legal action against Franco family in bid to take ownership of assets in summer home

SPAIN’S solicitor general’s office is taking legal action against the family of Francisco Franco in a bid to take ownership of 564 items that are currently inside the dictator’s former summer home,

21 Sep, 2022 @ 17:13

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Search for Spanish Civil War victim unearths Visigothic remains

THE search for the remains of a teenage woman executed by Franco’s fascist forces for her temerity in embroidering a Republican flag has found a body. But it is not that of

30 Jun, 2022 @ 18:00

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Valencia street to be renamed to honour cartoonist killed by Franco during Spain’s dictatorship

VALENCIA city is to name a street after famous cartoon artist Carlos Gomez Carrera, also known as ´Bluff´, who was shot after lampooning fascist dicatator Francisco Franco. A street will take the

14 May, 2022 @ 10:00

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EXPLAINED: Anarchy, assassinations & acrimony – the rich & violent history of Labour Day in Spain

THIS SUNDAY sees Labour Day celebrated in Spain, a national holiday originating back to 1889 that was outlawed for decades under Franco. The Día del Trabajador, or Primero de Mayo, is the

29 Apr, 2022 @ 11:15

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