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Franco Part 5: Life After a Dictator

Real Dictators

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Spain's Transition to Democracy Is Impossible by the Pact of Oblivion

The era of Francoism gives way to a new era of silence, known as the pact of forgetting. This agreement to turn away from history is even codified in law in the 1977 amnesty law. Spain opts to leave its past behind without looking at square in the eye.

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