Word: carrero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Necessarily Liberal. The leading member of the group is Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó, 48. A onetime administrative law professor. López Rodó is a protégé of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, who is Vice President and one of the few men Franco really trusts. He is also the probable choice for Premier under a restored monarchy. El Caudillo apparently listened when Carrero Blanco and López Rodó pointed out to him that the competent Opus Dei technocrats would do less boat-rocking than the Falangists. As a result, technocrats...
...phone, he checked with the commanders of Spain's seven military districts. All but one demanded that a state of emergency be declared-and the one exception, Barcelona's leader, said he would accept nothing less than a return to full military rule. Armed with this information, Carrero consulted the three military ministers and proceeded to draw up the emergency decree. Bypassing the Cabinet's liberals, Carrero then went directly to Franco and convinced the generalissimo that the declaration was vital. Next day, at the regular weekly Cabinet meeting, Franco ordered that the decree be passed unanimously...
...incident was the final provocation. Unharmed in the attack but fighting mad, he stormed into the office of Franco's right-hand man, Vice Pres ident Luis Carrero Blanco, and demanded that the government crack down. If it did not, he blustered, the military would take matters into its own hands...
...Carrero is a complicated man; he is not a liberal, but he has not opposed the liberalizing measures of recent years. Nonetheless, he agreed with Gonzalez-Aller that drastic measures had indeed become necessary...
...Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco...