{"id":580168,"date":"2025-11-19T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580168\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:56:21","slug":"spain-marks-50-years-since-francos-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580168\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain marks 50 years since Franco&#8217;s death &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On November 20, 2025<\/strong>, Spain is marking 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the dictator who ruled the country for nearly four decades, a period known as the <strong>Franco Regime: 1936-1975<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Franco died on <strong>November 20, 1975<\/strong>, ending a regime built on strict authoritarian control, censorship, and limited civil rights. His death paved the way for Spain&#8217;s transition to democracy, which remains one of the most significant political shifts in Spain&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1636253-4733363\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/33\/spainmarks50_4733363b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/33\/spainmarks50_4733363_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1636253','4733363',false,'6c402744ffc760ba2540369c1c86f5d1');\" height=\"434\" alt=\"Spain marks 50 years since Franco's death\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-1aeaadc62b79e6a93e2ce063-=\"\"\/>Mirador de la Memoria, El Torno, Caceres, Spain. Monument in memory of those assassinated by the Franco dictatorship \/\/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fifty years later<\/strong>, opinions about the Franco era remain divided. Some see the period as one of order and stability, while others highlight the repression, political persecution, and restrictions that defined the regime.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, Spaniards are largely split along the right-left divide over how to handle the legacy of the four-decade dictatorship that followed the <strong>1936-1939 civil war<\/strong>, which ended with <strong>Franco&#8217;s death 50 years ago on Thursday at age 82<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On November 20, 2025, Spain is marking 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the dictator who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-580168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115575769855127442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}