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On Franco’s side were monarchists, conservatives, the Catholic Church, and the right-wing Falangists.
When Franco died in 1975, Spain rapidly emerged from its isolation.
Exhausted after the Civil War, Spain remained on the sidelines during World War II and began to recover economically under the oppressive, law-and-order regime of Franco.
Three years later, after the death of Franco, a constitutional monarchy was restored with King Juan Carlos I at its head.
The Canaries were not spared the horrors of the war (mass Republican executions took place in the aptly named Barranco del Infierno, the Gorge of Hell, on Tenerife), but on the whole the islands prospered during Franco’s period of dictatorship, which provided for added protection to their free-port status.