Mister Danger killed Don Quixote de la Mancha Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero Understanding the meaning of Francoism in the cold war constitutes a surrealist approach that can generate severe labyrinths such as those caused by the visit of the Spanish Santiago Abascal to Mexico. Francisco Franco's Spain was a fascist dictatorship that survived thanks to the economic determinism of the Western world. Falangism was an important legitimator of Catholic nationalism, but especially of the United States. The Iberian Peninsula became a space where different types of anti-communism converged and strategies were designed to influence Eastern Europe and Latin America. Francoism was a protagonist in the Cold War compared to its meager role during World War II. From Spain paramilitary, ideological, religious and partisan strategies were formed that were carried out by nationalist Catholics in the ecclesial and educational communities. In exchange for cooperating with the strategies of the Va