Hedgecoe, Guy
11 Complacent Dictator By the close of 1950 Franco enjoyed the satisfaction of having achieved the security of his regime primarily on his own terms. Certain changes had been made in deference to international opinion. The Catholic identity of the regime had been reemphasized, and the content, ...
Last month marked the 45thanniversary of the death ofFrancisco Franco, Western Europe’s last dictator. Afterwards Spain finally transitioned into a democratic state; something it had tried when it elected a new government in 1931. During the “Second Republic”, Spaniards deposedKing Alfonso XIIIa...
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Spain, which it did in 1955. By the end of the 1950s the highly successful Stabilisation Plan, largely the product of members of the catholic group Opus Dei, was beginning to have an impact and during the first few years of the 1960s tourism began to really developalong the Costa del ...
For many, Real Madrid still bring back the memories of the Franco years when phrases like ‘Franco’s pet team’ were quite popular among the oppressed population. The dictator, however, was not the keenest football fan one is likely to encounter in Spain. The oppressive measures of the Gen...
Francisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975.
Falange, extreme nationalist political group founded in Spain in 1933 by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, son of the former dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. Influenced by Italian fascism, the Falange joined forces (February 1934) with a like-minded group,