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After 3½ decades of Francoism, during which, the author reminds us, the dictator “decided that Spaniards were too childish to govern themselves,” there was a palpable sense of a nation orphaned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Until now, Francoism was included in the school history programme but rarely addressed in detail.

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2022

Even when these books are not explicitly about Francoism, they tend to examine structures of feeling that cannot but recall the dictatorship and its aftermath.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

In defying the coup's bullets, Cercas writes, Suárez "not only redeems himself, but in a way redeems his whole country for having collaborated massively with Francoism".

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2011

There is a feeling that we are at the end of Francoism.

From Time Magazine Archive