Families of victims of Franco regime welcome new Spanish law
Madrid, SpainReuters Flor Baena has spent decades trying to clear the name of her brother Jose Humberto, who was one of the last five people executed under General Francisco Franco’s fascist regime just two months before the dictator’s death in 1975. But on Thursday, the leftist government’s Democratic Memory law tackling the legacy of the […]
Spain fires captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorial
Madrid, Spain AP Spain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video showed some 30 soldiers of the officer’s unit kneeling in front of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, the most potent existing symbol of the dictatorship of the late General Francisco Franco. The Defence Ministry said Thursday that the captain was […]