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Spain’s Culture Ministry starts process to outlaw foundation honouring former dictator Francisco Franco

NEARLY 50 years after the death of Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish government has just announced that it will start the process to

20 Jun, 2024 @ 16:29

Lead·Politics

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

4 Apr, 2024 @ 13:53

Lead·Madrid·Politics

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

30 Apr, 2023 @ 14:30

Lead·Madrid·National News·Politics

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

20 Apr, 2023 @ 17:15

Lead·National News·Politics

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

4 Dec, 2022 @ 13:30

Lead·Madrid·National News

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

5 Nov, 2022 @ 12:45

Lead·National News

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

3 Nov, 2022 @ 16:11

Lead·National News

Virtual Spanish Civil War museum launched online in bid to plug a gap in collective memory

WITH little fanfare, the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War was launched online in September. The free website is aimed at educating anyone who

16 Oct, 2022 @ 13:30

Lead·National News

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

12 Oct, 2022 @ 12:45

Lead·National News

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

12 Oct, 2022 @ 09:45

Lead·National News

Donald Trump among foreign politicians to send message of support to Spain’s far-right Vox

FORMER US president Donald Trump was among the foreign politicians to send messages of support this weekend to Vox, the far-right Spanish party that has

10 Oct, 2022 @ 16:51

Lead·National News

Legal row brews over Franco’s flowery bathroom sink at dictator’s summer palace

A FLOWERY basin where General Francisco Franco carried out his daily ablutions when at his summer palace in Galicia is at the centre of a

11 Oct, 2021 @ 11:15

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