Debatable ... but I'm probably one of the only FReepers in this forum that saw him while he was alive. It was May 1966 and I was passing thru the Barcelona Airport on my way to Nice, France. Franco was flying out of Barcelona, presumably to Madrid, and I happened to be there at the same time. Security was enormous, however, I did manage a glimpse of him as he boarded his aircraft on the tarmac. He was perhaps 200 yards away ... and had a military entourage seeing him off.
I'm sure... he had signed death warrants for thousand of Spaniards since the end of the Civil War. I can just imagine how many folks just hated him for that and would love to take a pot shot at him...