Zelenskyy visits Picasso's 'Guernica' painting after drawing parallel to Ukraine's bombing
Read full article: Zelenskyy visits Picasso's 'Guernica' painting after drawing parallel to Ukraine's bombingUkraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Spain and stopped to see Pablo Picasso's โGuernicaโ in Madrid.
Spain identifies 212 German, Austrian and Dutch fighters who went missing during Spanish Civil War
Read full article: Spain identifies 212 German, Austrian and Dutch fighters who went missing during Spanish Civil WarSpainโs government researchers say they've identified hundreds of foreign fighters who disappeared in the region during the Spanish Civil War.
Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of 128 Franco victims buried anonymously at mausoleum
Read full article: Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of 128 Franco victims buried anonymously at mausoleumInitial forensic work has begun to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Francoโs forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in the Valle de Cuelgamuros mausoleum, formerly known as the Valle de los Caรญdos, or Valley of the Fallen.
Spain exhumes fascist party founder from Madrid mausoleum
Read full article: Spain exhumes fascist party founder from Madrid mausoleumThe body of Josรฉ Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spainโs fascist Falange movement, has been exhumed from a Madrid mausoleum and transferred to a city cemetery.
Spain fires captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorial
Read full article: Spain fires captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorialSpainโs 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.
Q&A: Almodรณvar on unearthing the past in 'Parallel Mothers'
Read full article: Q&A: Almodรณvar on unearthing the past in 'Parallel Mothers'Pedro Almodรณvar's โParallel Mothersโ stars Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit as young mothers who meet at the hospital and whose babies are accidentally switched at birth.
Spain faces its past in mass graves bill. Will it be enough?
Read full article: Spain faces its past in mass graves bill. Will it be enough?For decades, family members of the tens of thousands victims of Francisco Franco's brutal regime in Spain have had little help from central authorities to recover their loved ones from the country's hundreds of mass graves.
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Spain: govt bill targets supporters of Francoโs dictatorship
Read full article: Spain: govt bill targets supporters of Francoโs dictatorshipSpainโs government wants to outlaw expressions of support for Gen. Francisco Francoโs 20th-century dictatorship and ban bodies which extol that periodโs policies and leaders.
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Nevada delegation wants statue of late senator replaced
Read full article: Nevada delegation wants statue of late senator replacedThe delegation members' letters also voiced support for local efforts to rename Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. Two of the letter-signers were among delegation members who asked state lawmakers in 2017 to remove the McCarran statue from the Capitol. To replace the statue in the U.S. Capitol, the state Legislature must pass a resolution identifying the statue to be replaced along with the name of a replacement, and several other requirements. Each state is invited to place two statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Nevada added its second honoree in 2005 with a statue of 19th century Northern Paiute author and educator Sarah Winnemucca.

Controversial exhumation of Franco takes place in Spain
Read full article: Controversial exhumation of Franco takes place in SpainDespite the government's refusal to authorize two demonstrations, about 200 Franco supporters protested at a police blockade near the Mingorrubio cemetery before the exhumation. Franco's family and his far-right supporters have opposed the plan and the family unsuccessfully appealed the decision in the courts. Franco's family said the Spanish government had violated their "fundamental rights." Thousands of executions were carried out by his nationalist regime during the Spanish Civil War and in the following years. In 2007, the Spanish government passed the Law of Historical Memory, which formally condemns the Franco regime and bans political events at the Valley of the Fallen.

Spain to exhume, move former dictator's remains this week
Read full article: Spain to exhume, move former dictator's remains this weekFranco was buried in a grand mausoleum called the Valley of the Fallen, northwest of Madrid, soon after his death in 1975. His remains will be relocated to the Mingorrubio state cemetery in El Pardo, 12 miles north of Madrid, where his wife is buried. Thousands of executions were carried out by his nationalist regime during the Spanish Civil War and in the following years. After World War II, he was seen by many as the last surviving fascist dictator and was ostracized by the United Nations. It also recognizes the victims of the civil war and the Francoist state and pledges aid to those victims and their descendants.
