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Spain exhumes body of general linked to Garcia Lorca's execution

Spain exhumed on Thursday the body of a Francoist general who is believed to have ordered the execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936 at the start of the Spanish civil war.

Reuters

You need to watch the smartest spy thriller of the decade on HBO Max ASAP

'¡García!' is an amalgam of pop culture's best super-spies and soldiers, including Captain America, James Bond, Indiana Jones, and yes, even Austin Powers. But it's also so much more.

Inverse

HBO Max series ¡García! brings fictional Francoist spy to small screen

Show portrays adventures of agent who wakes from cryogenic sleep to find himself in modern Spain

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Spain scraps 33 titles handed out by dictator Franco to family and aides

Spain abolished 33 aristocratic titles handed out by dictator Francisco Franco and his successor to loyal lieutenants and family on Friday as a new "Democratic Memory" law took effect.

Reuters

Florida Republican defends tweeting quote from Spanish dictator Francisco Franco

State lawmaker spoke at a nationals conference earlier this year

The Independent UK

Families of victims of Franco regime welcome new Spanish law

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.

Reuters

Heirs of Spain's fascist party founder ask for his remains to be exhumed

The family of the Spanish fascist Falange party's founder, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, have asked to exhume his remains, buried in the monument known as The Valley of the Fallen, where those of dictator Francisco Franco remained until October 2019, Spanish newspaper ABC said on Monday.

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Spain rights group seeks probe of civil war lyrics at far-right rally

A group representing victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's regime has asked prosecutors to investigate a song performed at a rally by the far-right Vox party for allegedly calling for a return to civil war.

Reuters

In Spain, the long fight to find Franco era's 'stolen babies'

Alicante (Spain) (AFP) - When the bones of her twin sister who died at birth were exhumed, Maria Jose Robles's worst fears were confirmed: their DNA didn't match, suggesting she was one of the newborns snatched during the Franco dictatorship.

AFP

Belchite, the open wound of Spain's civil war

Belchite (Spain) (AFP) - Like many Spanish villages, Belchite was devastated by Spain's 1936-39 Civil War.

AFP

Anarchist, publisher, would-be assassin: exhibition documents life of Stuart Christie

Tribute to the revolutionary thinking of the Glaswegian writer jailed in Spain when a teenager for plotting to blow up Franco

The Guardian - UK

Spain fires captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorial

Spain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video was posted on social media showing some 30 soldiers kneeling in front of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, the most potent existing symbol of the dictatorship of the late Gen. Francisco Franco

The Independent UK

Why Ukraine will likely win Eurovision

The song contest might be fodder for Will Ferrell spoofs, but it also reflects the political culture in Europe

Salon

'Walking through Europe's door, singing' – How Eurovision helps define Europe's boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win)

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest – an annual celebration of pop music in which nations compete to win the votes of judges and the public – takes place on May 14 in Turin, Italy. And Ukraine is overwhelmingly the favorite to win.

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Spain's High Court jails man who threatened to kill PM Sanchez for seven years

Spain's High Court has sentenced a 65-year-old security guard to a seven-and-half-year prison term for discussing assassinating Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on a far-right WhatsApp chat in 2018 and possessing illegal guns.

The Hindu

‘Parellel Mothers’ movie: Digging up uncomfortable truths

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers makes a political statement

The Conversation

Ukraine's foreign fighters have little in common with those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War

When an aging Abe Osheroff recalled why, as a 21-year-old kid from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, he had volunteered to join the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he framed it as a personal, ethical decision.

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Far-right gains first share of power in Spain since Franco

A far-right party will hold a share of power in Spain for the first time since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, with the Vox party securing a place in a coalition running the regional government in Castile and Leon.

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on remembering the Spanish civil war: the work must go on

Editorial: Pedro Almodóvar’s new film and a planned national museum both speak to the need to settle accounts with the past

The Guardian - UK

Pedro Almodóvar on Spain’s tragic past: ‘You can’t ask people to forget’

With his new film Parallel Mothers, the director dials down the camp to address the shadow of fascism hanging over his homeland

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