But the final chapter in this long saga is approaching. The government says Franco's remains will be exhumed on Thursday and moved to a cemetery in Madrid. But why were there calls for Franco's ...

Spain's Supreme Court has ruled that the remains of dictator Francisco Franco should be exhumed. It backed the Socialist government's plan to move the remains from a state mausoleum to a less ...

Archaeologists have so far exhumed nearly 1,500 victims from dozens of mass graves at Paterna who were executed in the two ...

The body of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, which rested in a giant mausoleum containing the bones of thousands of his victims, was exhumed on Thursday and flown by a helicopter to a ...

The experience made me ambivalent about his proposed exhumation. Franco was buried behind the altar of a massive basilica, hewn into the side of a mountain by a labor force composed partially of ...

MADRID, September 24. /TASS/. The Spanish Supreme Court has backed the move to exhume remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) from a mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen ...

the Law of Historical Memory was passed to bring justice to the families of those killed under Franco. And today, at sites across the country, the bodies of his victims are still being exhumed.

A Brazilian court on Thursday sentenced the two killers of iconic Black LGBTQ activist and councilwoman Marielle Franco to 78 and 59 years in jail, respectively, after a two-day trial over a crime ...

Franco Ordoñez is a White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk. Before he came to NPR in 2019, Ordoñez covered the White House for McClatchy. He has also written about diplomatic ...