General Franco’s authoritarian dictatorship lasted for almost forty years. When he died in 1975, political parties of both the left and the right agreed to draw a line under the past for the sake of Spain’s peaceful transition to democracy. So why now, over 30 years later, is Spain breaking its self-imposed silence about its past?
During Franco's dictatorship, many people who tried to stand against him were murdered and buried in unmarked graves. Over 30 years after his death in...
For decades, silence has surrounded the civil war and General Franco's dictatorship - but now Spain is starting to confront its past. Dr Georgina Blak...