A Spanish student was convicted for making light of the assassination of dictator Franco's second in command. The Spanish Supreme Court has overturned the conviction; but it endorsed Franco's dictatorship by saying that the assassination a "tragedy" and a "terrorist act".

Franco's tyranny murdered around 200,000 prisoners. The assassination of his officers was not terrorism, it was resistance to tyranny.

Support for Franco is dangerously strong in the right-wing party that now controls Spain; indeed, his supporters, never punished, were integrated into that party and have great influence in it.