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Six days after the tragic events in Castilblanco on December 31, 1931, with one peasant and four Civil Guards dead, a new confrontation took place in the La Rioja town of Arnedo between the local population and the Civil Guards.
El Caso. Crónica de sucesos is a Spanish procedural television series, starring Verónica Sánchez and Fernando Guillén Cuervo. The plot follows two investigative journalists working for a sensationalist newspaper in Francoist Spain. Produced by RTVE in collaboration with Plano a Plano, it aired in 2016 on La 1.
The winter of 1931 brought less work for day laborers in Estremadura and Andalusia, which caused social tension.On 20 December 1931 in Castilblanco, the National Federation of Land Workers (Spanish: Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Tierra, FNTT) called for a peaceful demonstration to ask for work, but the Civil Guard dissolved it, claiming that it was illegal because no ...
The May Days (Catalan: Fets de Maig, Spanish: Jornadas de Mayo), sometimes also called May Events (Catalan: Sucessos de Maig, Spanish: Sucesos de Mayo, Hechos de Mayo), were a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937 during which factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged one another in street battles in various parts of Catalonia, centered on the city of Barcelona.
The Badajoz massacre occurred in the days after the Battle of Badajoz during the Spanish Civil War.Between 500 [1] and 4,000 [2] civilian and military supporters of the Second Spanish Republic were murdered by the Nationalist forces [3] after the seizure of the town of Badajoz on August 14, 1936.
Manuel Díaz Criado (1898 – 7 July 1947) was a Spanish infantry officer.With a reputation as a brutal sadist, he was during the Spanish Civil War responsible for the arrest, sexual abuse, torture and execution of thousands of people in the regions of Andalucia and Extremadura who opposed the Nationalist military uprising.
The Paracuellos massacres (Spanish: Matanzas de Paracuellos) were a series of mass killings of civilians and prisoners of war by the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War that took place before and during the Siege of Madrid during the early stages of the war.
Name Date Location Deaths Perpetrators Notes Day of the Ditch: 807 Toledo: 700 Emirate of Córdoba: 700 city notables massacred in a special ditch by Muslim army under Amrus ibn Yusuf