Families to finally recover Republican victims’ remains
A government agency has authorized the disinterment from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum complex outside Madrid of the remains of 31…
Search Results for francisco franco
Polls show no clear majority for Left or Right
The last publicly available voter surveys prior to next Sunday’s general election show a virtual stalemate, with no single party or blocs…
Macro-CIS survey projects clear victory for Socialists
The release of results of the most-recent monthly voter survey from the government’s own Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) on Tuesday shows…
What’s next for the Valley of the Fallen monument?
Yes, the remains of Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco have been removed from their place of honour in the Basilica at the…
The baby rattle and the Franquista firing squad
► 83-year-old man recovers baby rattle buried with mother executed in 1936 ► Catalina Muñoz Arranz tried on trumped-up charges, executed by…
‘Billy el Niño’ to face crimes against humanity charge
Accused Franco-era torturer Antonio González Pacheco, alias Billy el Niño (“Billy the Kid”), could finally face trial in Spain after a judge…
Podemos, PSOE move to decriminalize insults to Crown
Spain’s Congress voted 180-160 on Tuesday to move forward with legislation proposed by the Unidos Podemos parliamentary group that if approved following…
PP blocks call for apology over Nazi dive-bomb attacks
The conservative Partido Popular (PP) majority on the Justice Committee of Spain’s Senate last week quashed a motion advanced by Valencia’s regional…
Ministry opens sealed Civil War archives to researchers
A special commission of Spain’s Defense Ministry has recommended that the government open to researchers the contents of 500 boxes of sealed…
Gov’t to coordinate excavations of Civil War gravesites
The Justice Ministry’s new Director General of Historical Memory, Fernando Martínez López, announced Wednesday that the ministry has reached agreement with all…
Congress votes to reinstate universal healthcare access
In a reversal of restrictions placed on healthcare access in 2012 by the conservative Partido Popular (PP) government of then-President Mariano Rajoy,…
First evidence of Civil War killings unearthed in Valencia
As Spain’s new government prepares to bring to a vote a special decreto ley in Congress to reform and strengthen the country’s 2007…
Madrid to appeal ‘Division Azul’ name change ruling
The Madrid municipal government has vowed to appeal a court ruling this week that Spain’s 2007 Historical Memory law does not require…
LABOURFILE :: Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) ~ National Confederation of Labour
The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, or National Confederation of Labour), is the modern-day successor to Spain’s historic anarcho-syndicalist trade union that…
Supreme Court acquits Twitterer of extolling terrorism
► Tweets on 1973 ETA bombing of Franco minister did not incite to violence ► Spain’s Tribunal Supremo (Supreme Court) issued a…
NGOFILE :: Cáritas Española ~ Spanish Caritas
► Cáritas Española ~ Spanish Caritas Cáritas Española is the Spanish affiliate of the Catholic church’s international charity and humanitarian relief agency…
NGOFILE :: Cáritas Española ~ Spanish Caritas
Cáritas Española is the Spanish affiliate of the Catholic church’s international charity and humanitarian relief agency Cáritas Inernational, working within Spain as…
Valenciano is Spain’s first transgender town Councillor
► 22-yr-old Guillem Montoro of Compromís joins Paiporta municipal council ► The ever transgender person to become a town councillor since Spain…
LABOURFILE :: Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (CSIF) ~ Independent Administrative Workers Union
The Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (CSIF, Independent Administrative Workers Union) represents administrative and clerical workers in Spain’s public and private…
LABOURFILE :: Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) ~ Syndicated Worker’s Union
The Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) is a Spanish trade union that emerged in the 1950s out of Spain’s Catholic Workers movement and…
LABOURFILE :: Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) ~ General Union of Workers
• Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) ~ General Union of Workers • The Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, or ‘General Union of…
LABOURFILE :: Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) ~ Workers’ Commissions
• Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) ~ Workers’ Commissions • The Comisiones Obreras (CC00, or ‘Workers Commissions’) is Spain’s largest trade-union federation, having grown…
New Valencia law to unearth Civil War victims’ remains
• New law to budget 9.5mn euros to recover remains from 300 common graves • 11,000 killed during war, aftermath said buried…
Republican trade unionist killed in 1939 now laid to rest
• Timoteo Mendieta, dragged from home and executed at end of Civil War • First court-ordered exhumation of Franco victim since dictator’s…
Madrid kicks off nine days of ‘World Pride’ celebration
• Most important LGBT celebration worldwide arrives to Spain’s capital city • World Pride Madrid 2017 honours 40 years of struggle for…
Remains of executed Republicans uncovered in Valencia
• Discovery at ‘grave 113’ in Paterna expected to prompt more excavations • 2,238 Republican prisoners in Valencia executed by firing squad…
Family files suit at UN over Valley of Fallen remains
• Executed trade unionists’ family says gov’t failed to comply with court order • Lawsuit filed claims Spain in violation of UN…
Susana Díaz faces trouble in Andalucia following defeat
• Elections showed more anti-Díaz feeling within regional party than anticipated • Tenuous regional gov’t pact with Ciudadanos complicated by election results…
Police search homes of former Catalan president Pujol
• One day after Pujol’s son jailed, prosecutors focus on former Catalan president • Pujol clan investigated for money-laundering, tax fraud via…
Madrid removes Condor Legion cemetery monument
• Monument removed on 80th anniversary of Condor Legion’s Guernica bombing • Seven Condor Legion aviators reburied in simple, individually marked graves…
Courts in Navarra, Cádiz rule against Republican flag
• In ongoing ‘War of the Flags’, PP government in Madrid wins temporary stays • Local authorities hoist ‘tricolor’ flag to reassert…