The letter found in the El Rastro flea market in Madrid demands 9,000 pesetas from the dictator and reveals that he paid one and a half million for ‘Portrait of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz’
Unpublished documents from MoMA shed light on the mysteries of a famous episode of artistic censorship in the post-war period
Author of the canonical biography of the dictator, the British historian has spent more than half a century immersed in the study of the Civil War, the dictatorship and the Transition
Royal families are going through a rough patch. Various controversies are plaguing those of Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark. The media is no longer silent, and public opinion is more critical
EU member states have failed to reach consensus on the risks of maintaining time according to geography
Among voters of the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP), more people believe the dictatorship was ‘good’ than ‘bad.’ And 61% of far-right Vox voters believe the democratic system is worse or much worse than Francoism ever was
Historian Enrique Faes uncovers a case hidden in the archives for 60 years: a real-life detective tale involving tax evasion, secret codes and a Swiss bank employee who sought out wealthy clients in post-war Spain
The former partner of a conservative strategist in the US through whom she met Donald Trump, the 25-year-old gained visibility at the demonstration organized by Tommy Robinson. ‘It would be an honor to get involved in politics’
A handful of letters scattered in archives in Castellón, Paris, New York, and California reveal the existence of an intricate machinery that provided aid to intellectuals interned in French concentration camps
EL PAÍS features the stories of three American families who arrived in the European country this year, in the face of the US’ downward spiral and the loss of freedoms: ‘Things are getting ugly’
‘The real deception lay in the impossibility of paying for the return ticket,’ says Natalia Ortiz, a researcher of these expeditions that provided domestic service for Australian families
Washington is preparing to authorize major investments by its companies in the former Spanish colony, where Morocco claims sovereignty despite its UN status as a non-self-governing territory
The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and genitals
On July 25, the fall of Mussolini’s regime is commemorated with ‘pastasciutta antifascista,’ a dish that was considered an enemy by the dictatorship
The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the present
A Bolivian diplomat who translated ‘Mein Kampf’ brought up the Spanish dictator’s origins with the Third Reich. ‘Further inquiries will be made in this direction,’ says a document found by historian Marc Navarro
The movement to which the Nobel laureate belonged promoted the hyperbolic freedom of a fiction that was unlimited and furiously aware of its own ability to change the world with words and with the courage of inventiveness
The mythical documentary by the British band, which is being re-released, arrived in art-house cinemas as a psychedelic experience when the end of the dictatorship was already in sight
The professor of contemporary history has published a new biography of the dictator, a solid portrait that covers everything from his time in Africa and Hitler’s help at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the essential role of the Church in the regime
Historians warn of the complexity of competing against social networks and the popularity of far-right YouTubers
A foundation is digitizing the nearly 300 films that the Hearst Corporation recorded during the conflict and were shown in American movie theaters
The World Monuments Fund has chosen the Zaragoza town among 25 worldwide locations for which it will raise funds. The 1937 Battle of Belchite was a magnet for journalists such as Ernest Hemingway
German filmmaker Andres Veiel reexamines the figure of the director of ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘Olympia’ through her extensive and valuable private archives
Many thinkers supported fascist regimes in the 1930s, a precedent that is very disturbing today
Despite the existence of at least six areas affected by nuclear accidents and other industrial activities, the country still does not have an official catalogue that includes locations and clean-up plans
Never before have so many Cubans lived in Spain, which now has 200,000 residents from the Caribbean country, 10% of whom live in the capital