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…
Historical Memory
Lincoln Brigade to honor Proactiva refugee-rescue NGO
• Barcelona-based NGO to receive annual human rights award, US$100,000 prize • Sponsors cite history of Spanish Civil War refugees, Lincoln Brigade…
Historical Memory law puts focus on ‘Butcher of Sevilla’
• Quiepo de Llano’s tomb in Sevilla’s Macarena basilica in violation of new law • Civil War general promoted extrajudicial killings, wholesale…
Madrid panel lists Franco-era street names to be axed
• Special commission proposes change to 47 pro-Franco street and plaza names • New signs to honor 10 Women, 23 men, victims…
Judge in Alicante orders Franco-era signage restored
• Alicante council’s decision to remove 46 Franco-era signs overturned by court • City vows to appeal lower court decision to Valencia…
Progressive Spain’s Top Ten Video Posts for 2016
Following are 2016’s ‘Top Ten Videos’ posted at Progressive Spain … for your viewing pleasure over the year-end holidays … See you…
Reform to Spain’s ‘Historical Memory’ law proposed
• Proposal bolsters 2007 law, creates ‘Truth Commission’ on Franco-era abuses • Spain may finally get a ‘Truth Commission’ to examine rights…
#VIDEO: Children’s NGO rooted in Spanish Civil War
• Plan Internacional history began in 1937 during Spain’s bloody civil war • NGO fights child poverty, focus on root causes of…
#VIDEO: Amnesty asks for ‘Justice’ this Christmas
• Amnesty International says Spain stonewalling justice for Franco-era victims • ‘Ask for Justice at Christmas’ focuses on families seeking loved ones’…
Congress looks to restore Historical Memory funding
• Protests over Madrid street names on anniversary of dictator Franco’s death • Opposition parties seen ready to reverse budget cuts to…
NGOFILE :: Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH)
• Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (ARMH) • Spain’s Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (Asociación para la…
UN puts Spain on notice over Garzón disbarment
• Garzón disbarred in 2012 over allegations related to handling of Gürtel case • Ex-judge’s attorneys claim real reason was probe into…
Mola remains removed from monument in Pamplona
• General responsible for thousands of civilian deaths in Civil War disinterred • Despite objections, city also to remove remains of 1936…
Congress urged to apologise over Franco-era abuses
• Historical Memory activists seek official censure of 1936 military uprising • ARMH calls for apology, national day commemorating Franco-era victims Spain’s…
Ex-Franco Minister rails at ‘Historical Memory’ law
• Utrera Molina, under investigation on rights charges, lashes out at legislation • Former minister signed 1974 garroting death warrants for anti-Franco…
PSOE Castilla-La Mancha kills ‘Historic Memory’ law
• Socialists knock back Podemos proposal for regional ‘Democratic Memory’ law • Castilla-La Mancha PSOE at odds with Podemos since withdrawal of…
Not everyone in Spain exalts Hispanic Heritage Day
• Madrid and Barcelona mayors, Podemos’ Iglesias avert celebrations today • Catalan nationalists claim sovereignty, solidarity with indigenous America “In fourteen hundred…
#VIDEO: Art centre replaces Franco women’s prison
• Galerias exhibition at Segovia’s La Carcel art centre through 16th October • Contemporary art space focuses on women, repression and resistance…
Nearly 200 Franco-era victims found in mass graves
• Remains of 185 men and women killed by Franco-era forces found in Valladolid • Forensic team says additional mass graves may…
New forensic dig near Granada seeks Lorca remains
• Archaeologists work to find remains of three others killed with Spanish poet • Team hopes that Lorca’s remains will also be…
‘Franquista’ generals Mola, Sanjurjo to be exhumed
• Pamplona to remove remains of 1936 military coup plotters from monument • Move by city government gets backing from regional parliament…
Judge upholds Carmena approach to Franco-era past
• Judge says Carmena gov’t can’t be accused of ‘inactivity’ on Historic Memory • Formation of commission, deliberative approach conforms to law,…
Catalan gov’t to identify Civil War victims using DNA
• DNA samples to be taken from relatives of 4,700 victims of ‘Franquismo’ • Samples to be tested by forensic experts against…
Franco victims denied justice, says Baltasar Garzón
• Ex-judge, human-rights lawyer says Spain’s courts hostile to Franco victims • Garzón says Supreme Court part of efforts to silence dictatorship’s…
NGOFILE :: FEFFM ~ National Federation of Forums for Memory
• Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria (FEFFM) ~ National Federation of Forums for Memory • The Federación Estatal de Foros…
Madrid panel wants Franco-era honors rescinded
• Commission targets 8 individuals, 5 groups associated with Franco regime • Falange, JONS and military to lose ‘Medal of Honour’, ‘Favourite…
Socialists seek compensation for Nazi camp victims
• Catalan Socialists propose to reform Spain’s 2007 Historical Memory Law • Measure would pay 135,000 euros each to German camp victims…
Basques say Spain hinders Franco-era rights inquiry
• Legislators fault ‘delaying and obstructionist’ tactics over Franco-era abuses • Resolution says Rajoy gov’t blocking Argentine judge’s ongoing rights probe Legislators…
Battle of Ebro monolith to get makeover in Tortosa
• Local citizens vote to ‘recontextualise’, rather than remove monument • Dictator’s ‘Mayor in Perpetuity’ honor revoked by vote of municipal council…
Catalans move to rescind Franco-era court martials
• Legislation introduced to anul verdicts against regime’s political opponents • 100,000 court martials, more than 4,400 executions in Catalonia under Franco…
Court orders Franco ‘Valley of Fallen’ exhumations
• Remains of two union members executed in 1936 must be returned to families • First ruling on Franco victims buried alongside…