Tag: franco
Scottish expat in court for removing Franco plaque from his garden
Clifford Torrents took a hammer to the Franco tribute
King Juan Carlos: Spain must stick together through hard times
As Cataluna pushes for autonomy, the King calls for a unified Spain
Franco throwback
The alarming attempt to gag journalists who disagree with government policies
What was Guernica?
LISTEN UP: In this new section, Wendy Andersen gives a potted history on Spain’s most famous painting, which was inspired by the bombing of Guernica 75 years ago
Estepona: The white-village-on-sea
Estepona has found the perfect balance between modern tourism and maintaining its Spanish identity, discovers James Bryce
New book explores ‘Spanish holocaust’
Franco era atrocities explored by latest author to analyse Spanish Civil War
Garzon cleared of Franco deaths probe
The judge was handed an 11-year ban three weeks ago for illegal phone tapping
I only married because Franco shut the border
Wendy Williams meets Solomon Levy, one of the Rock’s most colourful figures
Garzon found guilty of phone tapping
Spanish 'superjudge' banned from practising for 11 years by Supreme Court
Judge Garzon facing prison
Prosecutors have requested a two to five year sentence or a 27,000 euro fine in the third case against the human rights judge
Human rights observers attend Garzon’s Supreme Court trial
'Superjudge' Garzon is on trial for investigating deaths during Franco's regime
The lost babies of fascism
As new cases of ‘Franco’s stolen babies’ emerge in their droves – they are now said to number 300,000 – Wendy Williams takes a look at how an horrific punishment of Republican sympathizers became a lucrative baby adoption business that tore families apart
A crying shame for Spain
BBC documentary claims 300,000 infants were 'stolen' under Franco regime
The geography and politics of Spain
Whilst the history of Spain is long and complicated, the geography and political set-up are fairly straightforward. Paul Whitelock takes a look.
They came to Spain to fight for freedom
But new evidence shows that those Britons and Irish who came to fight Fascism in Spain - 75 years ago this month - were spied on in their thousands once they returned home and were all suspected of being communists, discovers James Bryce
Mass Civil War grave found in northern Spain
Discovery follows news that 4,000 Brits fought Franco, more than double the number previously stated
Spanish footsteps of the gods
JAMES BRYCE took a trip to Chiclana and Sancti Petri, where it is said that the Temple of Hercules once stood and Roman leaders Hannibal and Caesar took their hols
Spanish Franco fallout
A new 6.5m euro state-funded biography of the former dictator stokes fury as it paints him in a good light
Franco’s missing babies probe in court for first time in Spain
The first ‘stolen baby’ case has reached the courts
Spanish Civil War communal graves located
Junta releases map of the 50,000 victims still awaiting a decent burial from Civil War
Search for Spain’s ‘lost babies of Franquismo’
Police have opened an investigation into the newborn babies who were lost in 1960s-70s across Spain
Tale of the century
The Olive Press talks to Andalucia’s oldest ex-pat about decades of change
From North Devon to South Spain in six decades – Part Two
The first night in San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa,) where I had arrived at the age of 20 to start my year abroad from university, had been an orgy of cheap wine, pintxos and music by Santana. This had led to the worst hangover of my life.
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