Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country A t first sight, few suspected that Francisco Franco might become a strongman capable of imposing a brutal dictatorship across four decades. He was a short, squeaky voiced army officer with a shaky grasp on non-