La Voz de Galicia: Patrick Maroto, nacido en Versalles, vive en Foz: «Cuando vi la película 'Un franco, 14 pesetas' pensé que estaba contando la historia de mi familia»
Patrick Maroto, nacido en Versalles, vive en Foz: «Cuando vi la película 'Un franco, 14 pesetas' pensé que estaba contando la historia de mi familia»
Estrella Digital: Franco dejó una herencia de 28,5 millones de pesetas, según El Mundo
Franco dejó una herencia de 28,5 millones de pesetas, según El Mundo
Franco was briefly elevated to Chief of Army Staff before the 1936 election moved the leftist Popular Front into power, relegating him to the Canary Islands. Franco joined the July 1936 military coup, which, after failing to take Spain, sparked the Spanish Civil War.
Francisco Franco, general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975. Learn more about Franco in this article.
Franco’s regime, often referred to as Francoist Spain or the Francoist dictatorship, was characterized by its adherence to fascist ideology, strong nationalist policies, and social conservatism.
Amid this crisis, Francisco Franco was a career officer who had earned a reputation for violent suppression during colonial wars, but he positioned himself as the man who could restore national unity through military rule and institutional purges.
Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde ( – ), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was the Dictator of Spain in parts of the country from 1936, and in its entirety from 1939 until his death in 1975.