Tag: dictatorship
Almost 100 victims of Spain’s dark Franco era are discovered in Granada: Remains show signs of torture and bullet...
A SERIES of excavations have unearthed the harrowing remains of dozens of victims of the Franco regime in a ravine of ‘horror, death, and...
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...
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...
New-found documents reveal a concentration camp existed on Costa del Sol
The unpublished documents confirm thousands of prisoners of war were held at the camp in Torremolinos during the Franco era in the 1930s