As we mark the 50th anniversary of Franco’s death, it is important to remember the private acts of memory and remembrance, especially as far right forces are rising again.
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Like Spain after Franco, La Stampa’s Bernard Guetta argues, Iran faces a crucial choice between authoritarian decay and democratic renewal. Before time runs out.
…and the beginning of Francisco Franco’s decades of military dictatorship.
The Venezuelan president’s calls for a constitutional overhaul suggest a possible first step toward the ‘corporatist’ policy forged by 20th century rulers like Castro in Cuba, Francisco Franco in Spain and Italy’s Benito Mussolini.
Even for those who abhor the Republican nominee, it’s important to get the terminology right.
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Caudillo Currency
We drove to Spain several times in the 1960s, back when General Francisco Franco was still leading the country. This is a Spanish peseta coin representing El Caudillo (“the Chief”) that I kept from our trip all the way down to Santiago de Compostela.
Hundreds of thousands have left Spain, until recently a land of plenty with a booming real estate sector, to seek work abroad. American countries are favored destinations, even if recession is now raising its ugly head there.
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Andalusian Graffiti
“The electoral campaign is like selling detergent,” reads this graffiti just one month after the first general election held in Spain since the death of longtime dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.