As Spain marks half a century since the death of General Francisco Franco this week, a significant number of young people now view the brutal Spanish dictator in a positive light. Far from reviling ...

Spanish youth are increasingly seduced by General Francisco Franco 50 years after the dictator's death, often unaware of his harsh rule and influenced by propaganda permeating social media, experts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skull of one of the two victims who were shot in 1936 by the forces of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the exhumation ...

Spanish military dictator General Francisco Franco on Aug. 27, 1937. Credit - Hulton Archive / Getty Images Standing in front of a banner that read “Spain at Liberty,” Sánchez announced 100 events ...

Half a century after the death of Francisco Franco, disinformation on social media has credited the Spanish dictator with social achievements that present his iron-fisted rule in a nostalgic light.

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(THE CONVERSATION) In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death on Nov. 20, 2025, the left-leaning Spanish government led a vigil honoring the many victims of the dictator’s ...

The Francisco Franco dictatorship in Spain lasted almost 40 years, from his military invasion of the Second Spanish Republic in 1936 and three years of civil war to his death in the fall of 1975. My ...

MADRID, June 19 (Reuters) - Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that the descendants of dictator Francisco Franco must return two valuable Romanesque statues to the northwestern city of Santiago de ...