Flags and messages decorating Franco’s mausoleum at the cemetery of Mingorrubio-El Pardo, northern Madrid. — AFP
SPANISH youth are increasingly seduced by General Francisco Franco 50 years after the dictator’s death, often unaware of his harsh rule and influenced by propaganda permeating social media, experts say.
“Life was better under Franco” has become a trope on social media, hooking a frustrated generation that has received little education on the dictatorship and is receptive to anti-system politics.
