Spain to Exhume Former Dictator Franco - News Summed Up

Spain to Exhume Former Dictator Franco


MADRID—Spain’s center-left government said on Friday that the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco will be exhumed in coming months from the grandiose public mausoleum he commissioned, a plan that has forced Spaniards to debate whether the wounds of dictatorship are best healed by digging up the past or leaving it buried. Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo said Franco’s family members, who have opposed the exhumation, will be able to decide where they want the dictator reburied. If the family objects, the government...


Source: Wall Street Journal August 24, 2018 18:11 UTC



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