Word: caudillos
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...enemies among the rich and his liberal critics in the navy. His cavalier actions could be as defensive as they are offensive. Yet his mounting intolerance to criticism has many Peruvians worried, causing one Lima journalist to comment last week: "What you are seeing is the emergence of a caudillo...
Traditional monarchists regard the Prince as a puppet of the Caudillo and prefer Juan Carlos' father, Don Juan, 61, the rightful pretender who is now in Portugal. Some liberals and radicals would rather have no monarchy at all. Only the army is solidly behind the Prince's accession-but it would abandon him if he should show signs of disturbing the status quo. Prince Juan Carlos himself, hovering last week over Franco's sickbed, remained an inscrutable figure...
Juan Carlos' education consisted of rigorous training in military academies and indoctrination in Franco's authoritarian philosophy. When the Caudillo officially selected him over Don Juan as the future King, his father's resentment increased the Prince's isolation. Franco has made Juan Carlos keep a low political profile. His few official functions, like cutting ribbons and dedicating projects, have been largely ceremonial. His public utterances have revealed little of his ideas about ruling Spain and his future role as King...
...handed over his powers as chief of state and head of the armed forces to Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 36, his chosen successor (see box). For the first time in nearly four decades Spain was not under the absolute rule of el Caudillo...
Throughout the week a procession of generals, admirals, ministers and family streamed to Franco's bedside at the modern medical center named for him in Madrid, presumably to show that el Caudillo was still in control. But behind the scenes there was obvious concern for maintaining stability. Cabinet ministers and high military officers met to consider emergency measures in case of Franco's death, and Spain's secret police and paramilitary Civil Guard were put on round-the-clock alert...