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Patheon, Inc. announces the appointment of Francisco R. Negron as Vice President and general manager of its Puerto Rico operations 

TORONTO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patheon, Inc. (TSX: PTI), a global provider of drug development and manufacturing services to the...

Spanish poet's civil-war grave to be opened: official 

MADRID (AFP) — Authorities in southern Spain said Friday they are ready to open a mass grave that could contain the remains of Spanish poet...

Garcia Lorca's heirs will help to identify body 

MADRID (AFP) — Relatives of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca will allow their DNA to be used to identify his body, though they are still...

Spain to rebury Franco victims interred at mausoleum 

MADRID (AFP) — Spain is to identify tens of thousands of civil war victims interred alongside dictator Francisco Franco at his mausoleum near...

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Byline: JEAN RENO

Image: The silent assassin Best Known For: Hitman movie Leon Early Life: Born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1948, to...

Annual mass at Franco mausoleum to end 

MADRID (AFP) — The priest at the mausoleum near Madrid where General Francisco Franco is buried said Monday there will no longer be an annual...

"END OF WAITING TIME" Confronts Spain's Fascist Past as Families of Victims Continue Search for Loved Ones 

In 1936, General Francisco Franco led a coup d' etat against the Spanish Republic that gave rise to a brutal civil war. During his long...

Commentary: Perhaps it's best we didn't celebrate our barbaric past 

The official celebration of the sesquicentennial of the founding of Colorado City during 1859 came and went without much fuss. Thanks to scores...

Capa photo likely staged, research finds 

By Harold Heckle

The Associated Press

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Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman...

Franco, Hitler & the play for Gibraltar: how the Spanish held firm on the Rock 

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When I was 11 we lived in Spain. Francisco Franco was very much in control. The national police,...