1974-1975: The year and a half that Franco’s death lasted

Franco began to die on Tuesday, July 9, 1974, when, suffering from thrombophlebitis, the doctors decided to admit him to the Francisco Franco Provincial Health City – then, everything was Franco in Francolandia –, the more dignified Hospital General Universitario Gregorio today. Cashew.

Your writer was at the beginning of his journalistic career and a few months ago he had been hired at Change 16. Founded in 1971 as “Semanario de Economía y Sociedad”, its subtitle said, it had already taken off towards general information, that is, political information, and was becoming the social icon of the democratic change that it was.