History of ‘Scarface’, a Nazi high command in Franco’s Spain
Otto Skorzeny arrived in Spain in 1951, protected by the regime of Francisco Franco. A former SS high command and...
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Líjar against France: Hundred Years’ War in a town of Almería
In October 1883, the town council of Líjar, in Almería, declared war on France to apologize to King Alfonso XII,...
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Chile’s Embassy took in almost 4,000 refugees during the Civil War
In July 1936, when the military uprising against the Republic took place, a large part of the foreign embassies accredited...
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Pinochet used Franco’s funerals to mastermind the murder of an opponent
The then Chilean president Augusto Pinochet was not only one of the very few heads of state who attended Francisco...
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40 years of Spain’s participation in the Non-Aligned Countries summit
Just forty years ago, Adolfo Suárez accepted an invitation from Fidel Castro to participate in the Sixth Summit Conference of...
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Spain’s ambiguous role in Equatorial Guinea’s ‘Freedom Coup’
On August 3, 1979, the then commander in chief of the Army of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, took up...
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40th anniversary of Mauritania’s withdrawal from Western Sahara
On 5 August 1979, just forty years ago today, Mauritania decided to renounce its share of Western Sahara under the...
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“Cooperation with Guinea failed because Suarez didn’t send policemen to Obiang”
Adolfo Suarez's decision not to send security forces to president Teodoro Obiang Nguema, after the coup that overthrew Francisco Macias,
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