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“Those Images Are Going to Ruin Your Life”: How Franco Died and the Controversy over the Publication of the Photos in His Agony

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“Spanish, Franco has died,” the media announced to the population exactly 50 years ago. “I know that at this moment my voice will come to their homes, interrupted and confused by the murmuring of their sobs and their prayers. It is natural: it is the cry of Spain, which feels as never the infinite anguish of its orphanhood,” the then President of the Government, Carlos Arias Navarro, communicated at the time. Franco, who headed the military dict…

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“Spanish, Franco has died,” the media announced to the population exactly 50 years ago. “I know that at this moment my voice will come to their homes, interrupted and confused by the murmuring of their sobs and their prayers. It is natural: it is the cry of Spain, which feels as never the infinite anguish of its orphanhood,” the then President of the Government, Carlos Arias Navarro, communicated at the time. Franco, who headed the military dict…

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Jaime Bel Ventura.- The problem lay in finding a credible excuse for General Franco to leave his post in Tenerife and move to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Franco was closely guarded by SIM officers (Military Intelligence Service) loyal to the Popular Front. The accidental death of General Amadeo Balmes Alonso, [...]

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Fifty years since Franco's death and yet we continue as if history were a carousel from which some do not want to get off.From Mallorca, the spectacle is seen with greater clarity: while the island is dealing with real – and urgent – problems, national politics revolves around a ghost that should already be resting in peace.And I will say it clearly, without fear of scandalizing the professionals of moral shock: a mature society can look to the …

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Franco's illness and death was the accelerator of several processes that announced the political and social breakdown of a dictatorship that was out of its time 4:58 hours, bell and teletype: "Franco has died · Franco has died · Franco h

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Franco's illness and death was the accelerator of several processes that announced the political and social breakdown of a dictatorship that was out of its time 4:58 hours, bell and teletype: "Franco has died · Franco has died · Franco h

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Franco's illness and death was the accelerator of several processes that announced the political and social breakdown of a dictatorship that was out of its time 4:58 hours, bell and teletype: "Franco has died · Franco has died · Franco h

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la Nacion broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday, November 20, 2025.
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