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Franco’s exhumation could help decide the Spanish election

9 November 2019

9:00 AM

9 November 2019

9:00 AM

I was no sooner in Madrid than General Franco was exhumed from his mausoleum not far from El Escorial. An air force helicopter ferried his remains from the Valley of the Fallen, where a gigantic stone cross marks the dictator’s grave as well as that of 34,000 Spanish Civil War dead.

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