The Latest Breaking News from Franco

Civilians Using Guns to Defend Against Multiple Shootings

There were apparently at least a dozen such uses in the U.S. in 2025.

Reason · Oct 19

Miriam González Durántez launches new centrist party in Spain

Wife of former British deputy PM Nick Clegg promises liberal alternative to the PP and Socialists before snap election

The Guardian - UK · Oct 13

Atlas of Disappearance review – forensic quest for thousands of forgotten victims of the Spanish civil war

Researchers employ technology in a bid to identify and retrieve remains in Spain’s Valley of the Fallen, in Manuel Correa’s emotional documentary

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3

How did Eurovision go from sequins and flares to geopolitical slugfest?

The contest is enduring the biggest boycott it has ever seen, but 2026 is far from its first year of controversy

The Guardian - UK · May 16

Carla Simón: ‘In Spain people use words like shame and blame. But my parents just had bad luck‘

The rising star of Spanish cinema discusses being orphaned at six, new feature Romería and why she always works with children

The Guardian - UK · May 13

Picasso’s Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain’s partisan squabbles

Forty years after the 1937 masterpiece returned to Madrid from its Franco-era exile in New York, it is again embroiled in politics, says Spanish journalist María Ramírez

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21

Beyond the ‘Spain is Different’ slogan: putting an end to tourist clichés about Spain

Spain’s image abroad and how it has evolved over the centuries was the focus of a recent episode of Karambolage, a TV show on Franco-German European culture channel Arte. It traced the evolution of the “Black Legend” from the 16th century to the tourist slogan “Spain is Different”, popularised in…

The Conversation · Mar 16

Antonio Tejero obituary

Military officer who led an armed assault on the Spanish parliament in an attempted coup in 1981

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10

Spanish officer who led 1981 coup dies on day documents declassified

Antonio Tejero, who has died aged 93, was part of rightwing network whose efforts were thwarted by King Juan Carlos

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25

Gwyn Jones obituary

Other lives: Revolutionary socialist who devoted most of his life to political campaigning, including in Spain, Romania and Hungary

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21