Word: caudillo
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...four huge lamps in the sanctuary, but when new ones were bought he objected to them too. Last week a new set of lamps was being made, work was still under way on the facade, and there was still only one lonely candidate for burial there, the Caudillo himself...
Just how clean were the bombs which that "Christian gentleman," the Caudillo, dropped on helpless Guernica after the city had surrendered...
...just 22 years since he took over as the Caudillo of Spain, and Francisco Franco, 65, is not the sort to let an anniversary pass unnoticed. Last week, at the "suggestion" of the government, Madrid's newspapers dutifully listed Franco's accomplishments (e.g., no fewer than 16 towns now bear the name Franco). "The moral qualities of Francisco Franco as a ruler," said Arriba, "are infinitely superior to those of Emperor Augustus, Charles V, and Napoleon." Such men as Franco, concluded the Catholic Ya, "are the instruments of the highest designs of Providence." The Monarchist A.B.C. recalled Vichy...
...office in 1945 during the election from which most of Colombia's recent political misery grew. A split among the Liberals let the minority-choice Conservative candidate win. Four years later, panicky Conservative leaders closed Congress, put Colombia under a state of siege, imposed their most forceful caudillo, Laureano Gómez, as President. Bitter interparty rural fighting, in which 20,000 died, finally led to a military dictatorship under General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Modest, brainy Alberto Lleras, meanwhile, moved to Washington and a prestigious appointment as Secretary General of the Organization of American States...
They represented a diversified opposition forming among groups that separately had long supported Franco: the Monarchists, the right wing of the Falange Party, the church and the army. Faced with the country's growing popular discontent and exhausted, inflated economy, they were trying to pressure the Caudillo into staving off revolution at his death by accepting a gradual evolution into a liberal constitutional monarchy with a relatively free press and an effective rather than a puppet Cortes. Most of them favored a constitutional monarchy with Don Juan or his son Juan Carlos on the throne as figurehead and real...