"in 1956, he surrendered Spanish Morocco to Mohammed V, retaining only a few enclaves (the ""Plazas de soberanía""). The year after, Mohammed V invaded Spanish Sahara during the Ifni War (known as the ""Forgotten War"" in Spain). Only in 1975, with the Green March, did Morocco take control of all of the former Spanish territories in the Sahara. In 1968, under pressure from the United Nations, Franco granted Spain's colony of Equatorial Guinea its independence, and the next year it ceded the exclave of Ifni to Morocco. Under Franco, Spain also pursued a campaign to force a negotiation on the"
"Carmen Polo, which the later democratic governments kept paying. At the time of her death in 1988, Carmen Polo was receiving as a pension more than 12.5 million pesetas (four million more than the salary of Felipe González, then head of the government). Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; ; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975. This period in Spanish history is commonly known as Francoist Spain. During the dictatorship of"
"Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead ""Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of ""NBC's Saturday Night"" (now called ""Saturday Night Live"", or ""SNL"") and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the Spanish Caudillo's impending death. It was one of the first catchphrases from the series to enter the general lexicon. The death of Spanish Caudillo Francisco Franco during the first season of ""NBC's Saturday Night"" served as the source of the phrase. Franco lingered near death for weeks before dying. On slow news days, United States network television"
"newscasters sometimes noted that Franco was still alive, or not yet dead. The imminent death of Franco was a headline story on NBC News for a number of weeks prior to his death on November 20, 1975. After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on ""NBC's Saturday Night""'s comedic news segment ""Weekend Update"", announced Franco's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: ""General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States. He earned worldwide respect for Spain through firmness and fairness."" As an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing"
"isolated by the international community for nearly a decade after World War II. By the 1950s, the nature of his regime changed from being openly totalitarian and using severe repression to an authoritarian system with limited pluralism. During the Cold War, Franco was one of the world's foremost anti-Communist figures: his regime was assisted by the West, and it was asked to join NATO. After chronic economic depression in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Franco presided over the Spanish miracle, abandoning autarky and pursuing economic liberalization, delegating authority to liberal ministers. Franco died in 1975 at the age of"
"announced the end of hostilities. The Republican forces had been defeated and Franco became the undisputed caudillo of Spain. He ruled Spain until he died on November 20, 1975. The Nationalist senior generals had held an informal meeting in September 1936, where they elected Francisco Franco as leader of the Nationalists, with the rank of ""Generalísimo"". He was originally supposed to be only commander-in-chief, but after some discussion became head of state as well with nearly unlimited and absolute powers. Franco adopted in 1938 a variant of the Coat of Arms reinstating some elements originally used by the House of"
"death of the caudillo Francisco Franco as a candidate for the Spanish Congress of Deputies, heading the PSOE list in Valencia Province and was elected to Congress. In 1978, he became the first President of the Valencian Government, the Valencian regional administration. During his time in office, he pushed for full devolution of powers to the Valencian region and supported bilingualism, arguing that the Valencian language should be given equal status with Spanish in the Valencia region. He resigned the position in May 1979, feeling that he was failing to receive support from the local branch of the PSOE but"
"speculation that up to 27 more prisoners could face the death penalty. Ultimately, these predictions proved ill-founded. Franco fell ill in late October 1975 and never recovered, dying on 20 November 1975. His death resulted in the de facto abolition of the death penalty, as no further executions took place. Capital punishment was abolished for all civil crimes by the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with sanctioned military executions in war time the sole exceptions. In 1995, the Spanish parliament abolished the death penalty in all circumstances. The families of those executed continued to seek the overturning of the sentences and"
"Guillermo Franco (Ecuadorian general) Guillermo Franco (February 8, 1811 in Guayaquil – March 1873 in Callao, Peru) was an Ecuadorian general. From a young age, Franco was interested in becoming a military man. He could not participate in the Revolution of October 9, 1820 due to his young age, but soon thereafter enrolled at the Nautical School founded by Admiral Illingworth. On August 31, 1828, next to José María Urvina, Francisco Robles, Luis de Tola and several others, under the command of Captain Tomás Carlos Wright, had an exceptional participation in the Battle of Punta Malpelo. During the early years"
"Francesco Franco Francesco Franco (Reggio Calabria, March 28, 1930 – Reggio Calabria, November 16, 1991), better known as Ciccio Franco, was an Italian politician, trade unionist and activist. He was a senator for the Italian Social Movement – National Right (, MSI–DN) (1972–1991). He gained particular notoriety for his role as a popular leader during the Reggio revolt of 1970–1971. In July 1970, Franco, at the time a trade union leader from the National Italian Workers' Union (CISNAL) close to the neofascist movement, became the informal leader of the rebel Action Committee and of the revolt. The cause of the"
"of the actor John Garfield's death and funeral in 1952. After a brief ""in memoriam"" during ""SNL""'s 40th Anniversary Special on February 15, 2015, Bill Murray ended the segment with the famous phrase which ""just came in from Spain"". Notes Citations Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead ""Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"" is a catchphrase that originated in 1975 during the first season of ""NBC's Saturday Night"" (now called ""Saturday Night Live"", or ""SNL"") and which mocked the weeks-long media reports of the Spanish Caudillo's impending death. It was one of the first catchphrases from the series to enter"
"April 2013 from natural causes, aged 82. Franco sometimes worked under various pseudonyms, including David Khune and Frank Hollmann. A fan of jazz music (and a musician himself), many of his pseudonyms were taken from jazz musicians such as Clifford Brown and James P. Johnson. Franco's themes often revolved around lesbian vampires, women in prison, surgical horror, sadomasochism, zombies and sexploitation (including several films based on the writings of the Marquis de Sade). He worked in other exploitation film genres, such as cannibal films, spy films, giallo, crime films, science fiction, jungle adventure, Oriental menace, exorcist films, war movies, historical"
"family agreed to disconnect the life-support machines. Officially, he died a few minutes after midnight on 20 November 1975 from heart failure, at the age of 82 — the same date as the death of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange. Historian Ricardo de la Cierva claimed that he had been told around 6 pm on 19 November that Franco had already died. Franco's body was interred at Valle de los Caídos, a colossal memorial built by the forced labour of political prisoners in order to honour the casualties of the Spanish Civil War. His funeral"
"only in Spain, under the title ""La Tumba de los Muertos Vivientes"" (which may well be lost). Franco suffered a severe stroke on 27 March 2013, and was taken to a hospital in Málaga, Spain, where he died early on the morning of 2 April. He was 82 years old. Jesús Franco Jess Franco (born Jesús Franco Manera; 12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, best known for his stylish exploitation films, directing around 160 feature films. Of Cuban and Mexican parentage, Franco was born in Madrid and studied at the city's Instituto"
"April 1, 1939, the day the war ended, the Soviet Union was the only major power that had not yet recognized Franco's government. The new regime had signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Portugal and a treaty of friendship with Nazi Germany on March 31, and on April 6, Franco made public Spain's adherence to the Anti-Comintern Pact. On April 20, the Non-Intervention Committee was dissolved and by June Italian and German troops had left Spain. The Francoist dictatorship remained until Franco's death on November 20, 1975. Casado remained in exile in Venezuela until returning to Spain in 1961. Cipriano Mera"
"International Brigades. In 1939, Franco won the war, which claimed half a million lives. He established a military dictatorship. Franco proclaimed himself Head of State and Government under the title ""El caudillo"". In April 1937, Franco merged the fascist and traditionalist political parties in the rebel zone (FE de las JONS and Traditionalist Communion), as well as other conservative and monarchist elements, into FET y de las JONS. At the same time he outlawed all other political parties, and thus Spain became a one-party state. Upon his rise to power, Franco implemented policies that repressed political opponents and dissenters, as"
"Franco buried at the monument ""shows a lack of respect ... for the victims buried there"". The government gave Franco's family a 15-day deadline to decide Franco's final resting place, or else a ""dignified place"" will be chosen by the government. The family finally agreed. On 13 September 2018, the Congress of Deputies voted 176-2, with 165 abstentions, to remove Franco's body from the monument. In Spain and abroad, the legacy of Franco remains controversial. When he died in 1975, the major parties of left and right agreed on the ""Pact of Forgetting."" In order to secure the transition to"
"Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, died. Franco had helped to modernize the country and improve the economy. His successor, King Juan Carlos, transformed the country into a constitutional monarchy. By 1980, all Western European nations were democracies. Between 1945 and 1980, the British Empire was transformed from the its centuries old position as a global colonial power, to a voluntary association known as the Commonwealth of Nations - only some of which retained any formal political links to Britain or its monarchy. Some former British colonies or protectorates disassociated themselves entirely from Britain. The popular war time leader Winston Churchill"
"Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco María del Carmen Franco y Polo, 1st Duchess of Franco, Grandee of Spain, Dowager Marchioness of Villaverde (14 September 1926 – 29 December 2017) was the only child of Spain's ""Caudillo"" General Francisco Franco and his wife Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés. In Asturian fashion, she is known by many nicknames such as Nenuca, Carmelilla, Carmencita, Cotota and Morita. Franco was born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain. On 10 April 1950, in El Pardo, she married Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde (1 August 1922, Jaén, Mancha Real – 4 February 1998, Madrid). Villaverde was a"
"Franco died on 20 November 1975 and he became King of Spain a couple of days later on 22 November 1975 and reigned until his abdication on 19 June 2014. President of the Regency Council During the Spanish State, ""caudillo"" Francisco Franco he created the Regency Council on 26 July 1947 and became its president. This allowed Franco to hold this office as regent, until he appointed a successor to restore the kingdom of Spain. Following his visit to Portugal, from 22 October 1949 to 27 October 1949 several politicians became regent across this period. Later, following Franco's illness, the"
"Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco The assassination of Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, also known by its code name Operación Ogro () had far-reaching consequences within the politics of Spain. Admiral Carrero Blanco was assassinated in Madrid by the Basque separatist group ETA on 20 December 1973. The assassination is considered to be the biggest attack against the Francoist State since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. The death of Carrero Blanco had numerous political implications. By the end of 1973, caudillo Francisco Franco's physical health had declined significantly, and it epitomizes the final crisis of the"
"escape into exile, or were victims of other reprisals and removed from their jobs and positions. General Francisco Franco — himself a Galician from Ferrol — ruled as dictator from the civil war until his death in 1975. Franco's centralizing regime suppressed any official use of the Galician language, including the use of Galician names for newborns, although its everyday oral use was not forbidden. Among the attempts at resistance were small leftist guerrilla groups such as those led by José Castro Veiga (""O Piloto"") and Benigno Andrade (""Foucellas""), both of whom were ultimately captured and executed. In the 1960s,"
"privatization of large State owned companies, closing of State banks, and limitations to States expenditures. This culminated with the issuing of the Law of Fiscal Responsibility in 2000. In 1999, Fernando Henrique was starting his second term in presidency, and the criticisms against the fixed currency rate were piling up. In January 1999, still in the aftermath of the Russian crisis, a new attack against the Real started. Fernando Henrique decided to let the Real float against the dollar. Franco remained against the measure and he quit the Government. Gustavo Franco Gustavo Henrique de Barroso Franco (born April 10, 1956"
"route via Moroccan territory bypassing the Straits. Franco's policy of open support to the Axis Powers led to a period of postwar isolation for Spain as trade with most countries ceased. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, who had assured Franco that Spain would not suffer consequences from the United Nations (a wartime term for those nations allied against Germany), died in April 1945. Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman, as well as new Allied governments, were less friendly to Franco. A number of nations withdrew their ambassadors, and Spain was not admitted to the United Nations until 1955. Although it sought to"
"Eduardo Franco Eduardo Franco Zannier (Paysandú, Uruguay, 15 March 1945 – Ib., 1 February 1989) was a singer and Uruguayan composer who gained international fame as the vocalist of the melodic group Los Iracundos. With Los Iracundos, Franco rose to international acclaim around the mid 60s, with juvenile romantic subjects such as «Calla», «Todo erminó», «El desengaño», «La lluvia terminó», «Felicidad, felicidad», «El triunfador», «Puerto Montt» and «Es la lluvia que cae»,; included subject in the album Los ""Iracundos en Roma""-the most successful of this decade- successes that carry them to incursionar, even, in the cinema, in several opportunities like"
"the general Francisco Franco was sworn in as the supreme leader of the insurgents. The Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. For three years the Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco and supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy fought the Republican side, which was supported by the Soviet Union, Mexico and International Brigades but it was not supported by the Western powers due to the British-led policy of Non-Intervention. The civil war was viciously fought and there were many atrocities committed by all sides. The war claimed the lives of over 500,000 people and caused the flight"
"re-elected for four subsequent terms and served in the Senate from 1972 until his death in 1991. He died from a brain stroke on November 16, 1991, in his hometown Reggio Calabria. Francesco Franco Francesco Franco (Reggio Calabria, March 28, 1930 – Reggio Calabria, November 16, 1991), better known as Ciccio Franco, was an Italian politician, trade unionist and activist. He was a senator for the Italian Social Movement – National Right (, MSI–DN) (1972–1991). He gained particular notoriety for his role as a popular leader during the Reggio revolt of 1970–1971. In July 1970, Franco, at the time a"
"Civil War of 1936–1939. The Republican defeat established the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, which unleashed a harsh repression and suppressed the autonomy. With Spain devastated and cut off from international trade and the autarkic politics of the regime, Catalonia, as a commercial and industrial center, suffered severely; the economic recovery was slow. Between 1959 and 1974 Spain experienced the second fastest economic expansion in the world known as the Spanish Miracle, and Catalonia prospered as Spain's most important industrial and tourist destination. In 1975 Franco died, bringing his regime to an end, and the new democratic Spanish constitution of 1978"
"Juan Picasso González Juan Picasso González (Málaga, 22 August 1857 – Madrid, 5 April 1935) was a Spanish military man and general who participated in the Rif War with the Spanish Army of Africa in late 19th century and early 20th century. He was a military investigation instructor known for ""Expediente Picasso"" ""(Picasso Files)"", an investigation report related to the historical defeat of the Spanish Army, some 20,000 soldiers and officers, of which some 8,000 were killed, against the Riffian rebels at the Battle of Annual, 1 July 1921, known as ""The disaster of Annual"". He was the second-degree uncle"
"it. Fornari called war ""the spectacular development of a general human situation in which death takes on an absolute value"" in the certainty that ideas for which we die are true and this is why ""death becomes a demonstrative process."" Franco Fornari Franco Fornari (Rivergaro, 18 April 1921 - Milan, 20 May 1985) was an Italian psychiatrist, who was influenced by Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion. He was a professor at the University of Milan and the University of Trento. From 1973 to 1978 he was president of the . Fornari was born in Rivergaro (a hamlet about 20 km"
"1937. General Francisco Franco confined the UGT to exile and clandestinity after his victory in the Spanish Civil War until his death in 1975. The Union emerged from secrecy during the democratic transition after Franco's death, as did the communist Workers' Commissions (Comisiones Obreras, CCOO). The UGT and CCOO, between them, constitute the major avenues for workers' representation in today's Spain, with the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) a distant third. The UGT declares itself to be an institution of productive workers, organized along lines of trades and liberal professions, which respects freedom of thought, leading toward the transformation"
"throne, but whom Franco feared to be too liberal. By 1973 Franco had surrendered the function of prime minister (""Presidente del Gobierno""), remaining only as head of state and commander in chief of the military. As his final years progressed, tensions within the various factions of the ""Movimiento"" would consume Spanish political life, as varying groups jockeyed for position in an effort to win control of the country's future. The death of prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco in a 20 December 1973 bombing by ETA eventually gave an edge to the liberalizing faction. On 19 July 1974, the aged Franco"
"Francisco Franco's death in 1975. During his career with the ""Daily Worker"" and ""Morning Star"", Lesser held the positions of home reporter, diplomatic correspondent, Moscow correspondent and foreign editor. He retired in 1984 at the age of 69, but continued contributing articles to ""Seven Days"", the Communist Party's own weekly newspaper. Lesser's younger brother Frank also served in the International Brigades, and preceded his older brother as Moscow correspondent for the ""Daily Worker"" after the Second World War. While in Barcelona, Lesser met Margaret Powell, a nurse. Powell, who was born in 1913 in Llangenny, Wales, arrived in Spain in"