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Spain starts closing Franco sympathisers' foundation
Reuters· 5 days agoSpain's government has begun closing down the Francisco Franco foundation, a non-profit organisation set up by sympathisers of the late dictator, Culture...
Almodovar's love affair with Madrid explored in new exhibition
AFP via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoOscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar's decades-long love affair with Madrid is the focus of a new...
Spanish nuns excommunicated for rebelling against Vatican
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe has described Spanish dictator Francisco Franco as “our undefeated leader”. The rebel nuns had...
Ángeles Flórez Peón, Spanish Civil War’s last militiawoman, dies at 105 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 3 days agoMs. Flórez Peón died on May 23 in a hospital in Gijón, Asturias. The Spanish press, which first...
Spanish Revenge Flick ‘In a Glass Cage’ Unleashes Homoerotic Hell on a Nazi in an Iron Lung
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA high-minded horror movie about Nazi crimes transplanted to Spain as a death cry over the evils of...
Why you won't see Spain singing their national anthem at Euro 2024
GiveMeSport· 5 days agoLuis De La Fuente's Spain side have left fans puzzled ahead of their crucial tie against Italy, with...
King Felipe VI marks 10 tough years on Spain's throne
AFP via Yahoo News· 6 days agoKing Felipe VI on Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of his accession to the Spanish throne,...
How the Right’s Illiberal Past Became Present | Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly· 2 days agoIn his 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, Philip Roth imagined an alternate history in which the...
What Happens to the Paris Olympics if National Rally Wins?
The Nation· 5 days agoIn a madcap gambit, French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the National Assembly and called...
Spain's amnesty for separatists bogged down in legal wrangles
AFP via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThree weeks after it was approved by Spain's parliament, an amnesty law for Catalan separatists...