Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco.

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco.

the late Francoist myth of a Cainite Spain, democratizable only with great care, so useful to the later Transition. And the list goes on. But half a century later, we are entering a different reality.

In Spain, rents have risen 74% over the last decade, with even steeper rises in the main cities. The Socialist-led government ...

Several sources estimate that Spain has the world's second-highest ... of some 1,500 out of the 2,238 people shot in Paterna by Francoist forces between 1939 and 1956 from dozens of mass graves.