Spain was a military dictatorship under Generalissimo Francisco Franco, whose title “Caudillo” is the Spanish equivalent of Duce or Fuhrer. While I lived in Spain, Franco cracked down on ...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco was good & mad, according to reports seeping from his Madrid palace. Why, he angrily demanded of his advisers, had they kept him ignorant of the people’s ...

In “The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar,” James Miller offers an eclectic survey of the career of one of Spain’s greatest ...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco commutes the death sentences to 30-year prison terms December 30. Franco dies in 1975 at age 82. On December 22, activist and UCLA lecturer Angela Davis, 26 ...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco announced that, as admiral of Spain’s Navy, he would attend the maneuvers aboard the German flagship. To suggestions that the Spanish coast was an odd spot for ...

Catalan republicans, angered by the Catholic church’s support of fascist rebel leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ravaged the churches of Barcelona. They sacked Gaudi’s old office in the ...

He went to Spain, where he fought as a member of the International Brigade there, against the forces led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Then he returned to Austria and, in 1938, when he ...