Spain Grapples with its Fascist Past

The body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was on Monday exhumed for the fourth time, and buried for the fifth time. Rivera was the founder of the Spanish Falange party, one of the primary fascist movements in Spain, and was executed by Republican forces in 1936, soon after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Rivera's exhumation comes four years after Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco's body was exhumed from the same location in 2019, after a lengthy legal battle. Both exhumations come out of a mausoleum Franco named the "Valley of the Fallen". Last year the area was returned to its original, pre-dictatorship name, the "Valley of Cuelgamuros".