Francisco Franco - Political Scandals

A TOP judge is about to go on trial for breaking a taboo on Spain's dark years of civil war and dictatorship by trying to prosecute atrocities of...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco's remains should be removed from a controversial monument outside Madrid, a commission named by the outgoing Socialist government recommended on Tuesday.The commission also proposed building a visitors' center to explain the Valle de ...

Spanish surgeons successfully repaired 73-year-old King Juan Carlos's ruptured Achilles tendon on Monday, medical and palace officials said.The popular monarch had surgery to the Achilles tendon of his left foot at the private USP San Jose hospital in Madrid and ...

Spain's much-loved 73-year-old King Juan Carlos checked in to a Madrid clinic late Sunday for an operation on the Achilles tendon of his left foot, the palace said.The operation, which comes three months after surgeons placed an artificial joint in ...

Spain's Royal Historical Academy said Thursday it may issue some rapid corrections after a favourable biography of General Francisco Franco was received with outrage.More than 12 years in the making, the academy's 50-volume Spanish Biographical Dictionary provoked a storm ...

REUTERS/Fred Prouser. If you lived in Liberia, you'd be eager to vote too. . After the NDP's surge in the polls during the last two weeks, it's no...

MADRID (Reuters Life!) - Veteran British historian Paul Preston estimates 200,000 Spaniards were killed far from the front line in the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War, and thousands more in the ensuing decades-long dictatorship of Francisco Franco.After a decade of research, Preston ...

Spanish actors, writers and union leaders joined a protest in Madrid by hundreds of people on Saturday in support of embattled Judge Baltasar Garzon, who was suspended last year pending a trial for abuse of power.Behind a placard reading "Truth, Justice ...

Shopkeepers in the Spanish capital have invited graffiti artists to paint the steel shutters protecting their stores to prevent them from being defaced by crude or obscene scribblings.Over 130 graffiti artists from across Europe, including Bristol and Milan, decorated 140 shutters ...

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Topic: Francisco Franco

Trial exposes Spain's painful past

Spain's government says Franco's remains should be moved

Surgeons repair Spanish king's ruptured tendon

Spanish king in hospital for Achilles operation

Spanish academy admits Franco bio may need fixing

George Jonas: The lower the turnout, the healthier the country

Historian Preston delves into Spanish "holocaust"

Hundreds protest in support of crusading Spanish judge

Madrid shopkeers recruit graffiti artists

Fifth Column

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