World & Nation
The Spanish Supreme Court rules that the country can exhume Francisco Franco’s remains from a huge mausoleum the dictator had built outside Madrid.
Sept. 24, 2019
The disinterment and reburial of the remains of military dictator Francisco Franco has stirred up controversy among his supporters and residents.
Nov. 10, 2019
On a quiet morning at the foot of the imposing mausoleum where the remains of Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco lie, a lone man lifted a red and yellow flag high above his head.
Oct. 11, 2018
Spain exhumes the remains of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid, the Valle de los Caidos, for reburial in a small family crypt.
Oct. 24, 2019
Spain’s center-left government says it has approved legal amendments ensuring that the remains of former dictator Gen.
Aug. 24, 2018
Technology and the Internet
As Katy Franco waited for her morning coffee, passersby pulled out their phones and snapped photos and video of her barista.
Feb. 17, 2017
In the decades since Francisco Franco’s death, the Spanish dictator’s colossal Valley of the Fallen mausoleum has stood untouched in the rolling countryside outside Madrid, guarded by a towering cross.
May 11, 2018
Thousands of flag-waving Spaniards demonstrated in downtown Madrid on Sunday to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the death of Gen.
Nov. 20, 1989
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco allowed the secret exodus of 100,000 Jews from Morocco into Spain from 1957 to 1963, former Israeli intelligence chief Isser Harel said.
Dec. 29, 1988
At the age of 92, the historian Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz is an unlikely graffiti artist.
Nov. 20, 2018