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Spanish Government Seeks to Declassify Franco-Era Secret Files - Spain in English
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The documents from which he was considered one of the creators of Comisiones Obreras have been found in a double background located on the kitchen wall of the Terrassa family house, to which he moved in 1951, so that the Francoists would not locate the union's information, then clandestine Historians look cautiously at the end of the secrets of Francoism: “It is valuable, but it can be left at all” Octacles, pamphlets, letters, PSUC cards, cland…
The drafting of the Law on Classified Information, which will replace the Francoist Law on Official Secrets still in force, has provoked strong tensions within the Executive, to the point that the preliminary draft had to be presented alone to the Council of Ministers last Tuesday by the holder of Justice, Presidency and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños. The signatures of the remaining ministers who initially subscribed to the preliminar…
A look at the disputes between ministries in the approval of the new law of secrets in Spain. Read more Analysis of ministerial disputes around the law of secrets in News.es.
The Spanish government has brought to Parliament a bill to automatically declassify all secret archives of more than 45 years old. And several international media have echoed this, stressing that this would allow to know documents of the Dictatorship and the Transition, including
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday in final form, for its referral to the Congress of Deputies, the bill on classified information, a norm promoted by the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, directed by Félix Bolaños and that replaces the Law on Official Secrets of 1968.Continue reading...
The Sánchez government is shielded by a new Secrets Law. With great pomp, the executive of Pedro Sánchez commemorates the 50 years of Franco’s death and promises to repeal the old Official Secrets Law of 1968. But, it replaces it with a Classified Information Law that, in practice, maintains obscurantism. The trick? The president’s trips in Falcon and Super Puma, as well as his fuel consumption, are classified as “maximum protection.” Come on, t…
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