Word: caudillo
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...their first bitter quarrel in 1936. But the continued estrangement is largely Don Juan's own fault; he has passed up many opportunities to heal old wounds. He even irked Franco over Juan Carlos' engagement. Instead of consulting the touchy dictator in advance, he merely telephoned the Caudillo a few hours before the public announcement. Franco took the call aboard his yacht Azor, laid down the receiver after hearing the news, paced the deck, then returned to bicker icily over details, finally hung up without offering a word of congratulation...
...Spanish monarchists, all hopeful that the marriage was an omen for the return of the Bourbons to Spain. But absent was the commoner who alone could decide whether Juan Carlos would ever take the Spanish throne: Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Far from the hoopla in Athens, El Caudillo was in Spain last week dealing with the most serious unrest to beset his 24-year rule...
...full extent of the nation's economic ruin was never fully understood by the descamisados Perón left behind; all they knew was that their heroic Caudillo had been driven out. It was left to the interim military government of General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu to assess the damage-and to Arturo Frondizi, elected in 1958, to attempt some permanent repairs...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 69, had fired off some 40 shots when the left barrel of his British Purdey suddenly exploded. "It is a matter of little importance," shrugged the icy-veined old soldier, surveying his bleeding left hand. "Give me a handkerchief to tie it up." The Caudillo seemed unfazed by the fact that had he been sighting along the horizon instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught him in the face. Less stoically, shaken aides hustled the protesting Generalissimo off to a Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since...
...even sent a division of infantry to fight Russia). In 1946, the new United Nations, determined to bring down the last fascist dictator in Europe, cut him off from the world by imposing a boycott which lasted five years. Spaniards, always resentful of foreign meddling, immediately united behind the Caudillo. From his palace at El Pardo near Madrid, Franco thumbed his nose at the West, saying that the West would eventually come around...