Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Granada and author of Cruces de memoria y de olvido. Los monumentos a los caídos de la Guerra Civil Española (1936-2021) (Crítica), where he explains that, through monuments in public spaces, Franco manipulated memory. This August he has seen that his research, in which he denounces how Francoism appropriated a symbol of Christianity, has been used to initiate the process to declare the Creu dels Caiguts in Cáceres an Asset of Cultural Interest.

In October, the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, He signed the procedure in accordance with the democratic memory law to extinguish the Francisco Franco FoundationIt's not the only one that may be facing closure. This Tuesday, during the Council of Ministers meeting, Urtasun announced that he will initiate the preliminary steps for the dissolution of the José Antonio Primo de Rivera Foundation, the Blas Piñar Foundation, the Ramón Serrano Suñer Private Foundation, and the Gonzalo Queipo de Llano Pro-Childhood Foundation. All of these foundations are opposed to democracy and glorify the dictatorship. Primo de Rivera was the founder of the Spanish Falange. Blas Piñar's political career began in Catholic Action, and he held various positions during the Franco regime, including member of the Spanish Parliament and national councilor of the Movement. In 1966, he founded the publishing house Fuerza Nueva, which ten years later became a political party with the same name and the motto "God, Fatherland, and Justice." Ramón Serrano Suñer was a minister in several of Franco's governments, and Queipo de Llano was a general considered a war criminal by many historians.