Born in modern-day Equatorial Guinea, he caused a national stir when he married a white woman in 1936, went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, spent time in several internment camps and ended up leading a local group of the French Resistance. EL PAÍS has reconstructed his extraordinary life based on newly found documents and family accounts
A picture of the aftermath of Spanish Civil War bombings published in 1937 triggered a successful movement to save a crumbling property from demolition and find decent housing for its struggling residents
A compilation of the personal belongings found among bones and bullets marks the 20th anniversary of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory
Dictator’s descendants appeal a decision that strips them of a property known as Pazo de Meirás in Galicia that they used for over 80 years
In his latest project, director Max Lemcke is giving back a voice to the victims of “Billy the Kid,” one of the dictatorship’s most notorious police officer
The new law will offer citizenship to the descendants of members of the International Brigades, who fought on the republican side during the civil war
Government announces €750,000 in grants, nine years after conservatives slashed the budget for historical memory projects
Forty-four years later, the remains of the late autocrat were transferred from the Valley of the Fallen today to a cemetery in Madrid, cheered on by supporters
Catalina Muñoz Arranz took the toy with her to her execution, and nearly eight decades later it has been returned to her child, who was just eight months old when she was killed
Archeologists found the toy lying next to the body of Catalina Muñoz, who was shot in 1936 and buried in Palencia, northern Spain