Word: caudillo
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...announcement in itself was without precedent. Spaniards had long been forbidden even to speculate publicly about the timing of el Caudillo's death. Although he was known to suffer from Parkinson's disease, so far as Spanish officialdom was concerned, the only times he had ever been indisposed were when he had a couple of teeth extracted and when he suffered a gunshot wound in the hand while hunting. Last week the government rushed out photographs showing the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) and frail general walking into the hospital without assistance, and doctors said his condition...
...contemporary figure. His erratic career took him from obscurity to the peak of power, to exile and then to one of this century's most remarkable political comebacks. Through it all, Juan Domingo Perón remained his country's symbol of national unity. He was el Líder, the caudillo who held out the perennial promise that the feuding privileged and underprivileged of Argentina would one day coalesce and turn their richly endowed country into the leading nation of South America. When he died last week that promise remained unfulfilled...
...Ataun, 64, for statements that sharply opposed government policy. Madrid even hinted that it might break the 1953 concordat that protects Catholicism's legal position as Spain's state religion. In response, churchmen warned that any official-presumably including Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and even the pious Caudillo himself-who moved against the bishop would be automatically excommunicated...
Carrero's successor, Carlos Arias Navarro, last week drastically reshuffled the Cabinet, throwing out the technocrats in favor of men, mostly in their 50s and 60s, who are known mainly for their: fanatical loyalty to el Caudillo. "They are a group of gray men whose thinking stopped with the Civil War in 1936," laments an opposition spokesman. "They are a very dull...
Franco's choice of Arias Navarro, who headed the national security police for eight years over more moderate candidates, seemed to signal his belief that the solution to Spain's problems is more repression. In his annual year-end TV address to the people, el Caudillo went out of his way to scotch rumors that he himself might retire. "Spain has always counted on my dedication, which will not be failing," said Franco, who betrayed his age in slurred, indistinct words. "My entire life has been, is and will be in the service of the Spanish...