General Franco - Part III

I have just posted the third article about General Franco. This article focusses on the period of Franco's dictatorship and is the conclusion of my potted biography of Franco.

As a footnote, Franco's impact on Spain to this day cannot be ignored: it will probably be many more decades before Spain is fully free of his mark.

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Website maintenance is hard work! It has taken around 2 hours to get the Spanish Talk sitemap up to scratch... but now it's done. Time for bed.

Hasta pronto.

Franko

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Erika Ortiz Found Dead

The sister of Princess Letizia (Prince Felipe's wife), Erika Ortiz, has been found dead in her home in Madrid. She was 31 years old. At the moment there is frenzied media speculation about her death, but the cause has not been formally announced.

General Francisco Franco

General Francisco Franco

As promised yesterday, I have added a further piece about General Francisco Franco. It specifically discusses Franco and the Second Republic. The final installment will be here in the next few days.

Anyway, here is the link to the article:

General Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco

An earlier anonymous comment made here last year urged me to write something about the Republic. I decided to start this off by writing about a key figure in 20th Century Spain: Francisco Franco.

This is an account of Franco's early years from his birth in 1892 up to 1928. I am currently working on an article about Franco and the Second Republic, with a further article planned about Franco's dictatorship.