The mausoleum where Spanish late dictator Francisco Franco is expected to be buried on Thursday is seen through a fence at Mingorrubio-El Pardo cemetery in Madrid, Spain, October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Susana Vera
MADRID (Reuters) - Cries of "long live Franco!" accompanied the laurel wreath-draped coffin of General Francisco Franco on Thursday as Spain removed the remains of its former dictator from the state mausoleum where he was buried in 1975.
Hailed by acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as a step towards national reconciliation, the exhumation was the most significant move in years by Spanish authorities to lay the ghost of the general whose legacy still divides the country he ruled as an autocrat for nearly four decades.
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