Word: caudillo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 72, would ahunting go, Spain's entire Cabinet joined him at his "el Pardo" reserve in the frosty hills of Guadarrama. Though a number of ministers shivered under their parkas in the shooting stands, el Caudillo happily tilted his rifle at wild boar and stag, wearing merely a sweater beneath his business suit. At day's end, he democratically announced only the group's total bag of 76 assorted animals, one of which was nailed by Francisco Franco Martinez Bordiu, 11, the dictator's grandson and namesake...
Thus Poet W. H. Auden once darkly described Spain, but today the "arid square" of more than 30 million people is growing ever closer to the rest of Europe. Franco long ago took economic power away from the old Falangists who helped him win the civil war. Now El Caudillo, who fancies himself an economist and contributes occasional articles to Madrid newspapers under the pen name "Hispanicus," is steadily giving more authority to a corps of knowledgeable and enthusiastic technicians. The young economists have been raising both living standards and future hopes...
...years the press in Franco's Spain has been fenced in by a "provisional" code of El Caudillo's own construction. Its comprehensive restrictions, bound into law, taught newspapers such docility that enforcement of the law was rarely necessary. Last week, as a reward to his domesticated press, Franco proposed replacing the old law with what purported to be a more liberal statute. But the first six press commandments enunciated by Minister of Information Manuel Fraga Iribarne suggested that in Franco's Spain press freedom would remain only a dream...
...been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some of the best battalions he ever had in the Spanish Civil...
...Priming their parched throats with spurts of red wine from goatskin botas, the Carlists cheered lustily for Carlos and shouted their contempt for Juan Carlos, whom they scornfully call "Juanillo." Proclaimed one Carlist banner: "We don't want Juanillo even if it's an order from El Caudillo...