2, No. 1/2, Spring/Summer 2010 THE FRANCO REGIME'S INFLUENCE ON CUBA 19... During the Cold War, due to Spain's involvement in the Western Bloc Franco had to adopt a pro-American policy and maintain an ...

During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain, Franco was single-minded in his drive to decimate the Spanish left. Under his regime, if a leftist woman had a baby while imprisoned ...

but the crimes have been shielded under an amnesty law passed two years after Franco's death, protecting former members of the regime. The United Nations, which sent a working group to Spain to ...