The uprising consisted of military action between the existing republican government and a nationalist faction led by a military General called Francisco Franco. The Spanish civil war is one of the most famous coups in the world and took place between July of 1936 and April of 1939. In October 2019, the body of Francisco Franco was moved from the Valley of the Fallen to a Madrid cemetery after 16 months of administrative and legal hurdles as FrancoвЂ™s family fought the move.Д®nglish version by Susana Urra. There are also plans to turn the Valley of the Fallen, a state-run monument built by war prisoners and containing the remains of over 33,800 victims, into a place of memory. The draft bill also contemplates sanctions for authorities who drag their feet on issues such as removing Francoist symbols from public spaces, and seeks to facilitate public access to documents relating to the war. The United Nations criticized this вЂњprivatizationвЂќ of the exhumation effort, and the Spanish government now wants to get government agencies involved in the process at all levels. The 2007 law offered grants but made victim associations responsible for the entire process of searching and digging up the graves. The bill incorporates United Nations recommendations and insists on educational aspects, such as the need to teach about democratic memory at schools, said sources familiar with the draft legislation.ДЇrancisco Etxeberria, a forensic scientist who is advising the government and who has worked extensively on Civil War exhumations, has estimated that it might be possible to retrieve between 20,000 and 25,000 bodies from mass graves over a period of four to five years. The Pedro SГЎnchez administration is working on the draft of a new historical memory law that will include a DNA database and an official list of Civil War victims. New law Members of the Franco family enter the Valley of the Fallen to attend the exhumation. Other grants will be available for symposiums and exhibitions on historical memory issues, and for projects that study and disseminate the documentary heritage of the Spanish Civil War and dictatorship. The grants will be formally announced in September, and around в‚¬400,000, representing 60% of the total budget, will be earmarked for the opening of mass graves and the exhumation of execution victims. There are still more than 1,200 mass graves left to open in Spain, according to a map available at the Justice Ministry. One of the best-known cases is the poet and playwright Federico GarcГa Lorca, who was executed at the beginning of the war in Granada. The executive said there will also be a specific support program for local governments, effective between 20, to help search for people who went missing during the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco, who governed Spain from the end of the civil war until his death in 1975. Now, an administration led by the PSOE in partnership with the leftist Unidas Podemos is allocating new funds for exhumations and other historical memory activities. A grave in Alfacar (Granada) believed to hold the remains of the poet Federico GarcГa Lorca. At the time of passage, the law was strongly opposed by the conservatives, as well as by some leftist parties that felt it did not go far enough. With that move, Rajoy in practice repealed the 2007 Historical Memory Law, which had been championed by his predecessor JosГ© Luis RodrГguez Zapatero of the Socialist Party (PSOE). On Wednesday, the Official State Gazette (BOE) published a ministerial order regulating the в‚¬750,000 in subsidies that will be available for activities that were placed on hold when the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy, of the Popular Party (PP), withdrew funding. For the first time since 2011, the government of Spain has announced new grants for historical memory projects, which include the exhumation of bodies from mass graves dating back to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Map of spanish civil war