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Articles tagged with: Franco

21 November 2020 11:52 AM

Carles Vallejo, president of the association of former political prisoners of Francoism, looks through old newspaper clippings of stories related to his time in prison (by Cristina Tomàs White)

Tortured under Franco, forgetting is not an option for Carles Vallejo

Former political prisoner reflects on his arrest and exile as well as historical memory

Society In Depth

20 November 2020 07:17 PM

Carles Vallejo, president of the association of former political prisoners of Francoism, November 17, 2020 (by ACN)

PODCAST: Open Wounds – Dealing with the Francoist Past

45 years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco many issues remain unresolved 

Society

15 October 2020 10:20 AM

Lluís Companys (WikiCommons)

80th anniversary of Catalan president’s execution at hands of Francoist regime

Lluís Companys, defender of the Spanish Second Republic, honored with Stolpersteine stone

Society

15 September 2020 05:14 PM

Spanish vice president, Carmen Calvo, September 15, 2020 (by Moncloa/José María Cuadrado)

Spain's cabinet approves 'Historical Memory Law' in first step to annul Franco-era convictions

Pending parliamentary approval, law will ban organizations sympathetic to dictatorship

Society

23 July 2020 02:06 PM

Image of the Sant Pere de Vallhonesta chapel, in Sant Vicenç de Castellet, with Joan Casajoana, who claims ownership, on July 23, 2020 (by Nia Escolà)

Church registered 3,722 estates without title deeds over 70 years, says government

Religious institution was permitted to act as notary thanks to a Franco era law in force until 2015

Society

06 November 2019 04:19 PM

Josep Sabatés looking at a photograph of his father and his siblings, one of the few records he has of his uncle (by Estefania Escolà)

Josep's uncle returns from the war after more than 80 years

In a simple ceremony, Sabatés family receive the remains of a relative killed in the Civil War, thanks to government's genetic identification program

Society

27 October 2019 05:38 PM

A portrait of Tomàs Verdaguer Roqué, a Spanish Civil War soldier whose remains were returned to his family 80 years after his death, in October 2017 (by Xavier Verdaguer)

The two sides of the Civil War legacy

The return of the remains of a Republican soldier found in an unmarked grave provide a stark contrast to the exhumation of dictator Franco

Society

24 October 2019 06:55 PM

The coffin of Franco is lifted into the helicopter that brought the former dictator's remains to its new resting place, just outside Madrid (by EFE)

'Francoism is very present' - Reactions to the dictator's exhumation

After more than 40 years, the remains of Spain's former dictators were exhumed from a Civil War memorial site

Politics

24 October 2019 10:04 AM

The relatives of Spain's late dictator Francisco Franco take his coffin out of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum (by EFE)

Franco exhumation: what you need to know

Thursday sees the remains of Spain's late dictator removed from the Valley of the Fallen memorial site to a family tomb near Madrid

Society

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