Video: 40 years on, Francos ghost still haunts Spain

Subscribe to France 24 now : FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24, 7 Forty years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Spain is still unable to fully move on from its past. The population remains deeply divided between pro and antiFranco camps. Our reporters went to Madrid to meet those still affected by the memory of El Caudillo. For many Spaniards, its a taboo subject. Some families contain both antiFranco Republicans and proFranco Nationalists, many holding painful secrets from the past. Generations of men and women who grew up after Francos rule have sometimes learned during a family gathering that a relative disappeared or was tortured, executed or kidnapped during the civil war (19361939) or the dictatorship of General Franco (19391975). Atrocities were committed by both sides. According to the UN, Spain is the country that has experienced the secondlargest number of forced disappearances worldwide, aft