Word: ridruejo
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...Spain's economic and political problems are rapidly coming to a head. Spain today is a police state in which such problems are not being dealt with at all. No one runs anything, and no one is responsible for anything. "Spain is closer to anarchy than any other country," Ridruejo has said, and something is bound to give...
...succession question, he believes, will most probably result in a restoration of the monarchy. Two pretenders to the throne exist, however--Don Carlos and his son Juan Carlos. The viability of the government that emerges, Ridruejo feels, will depend heavily on who is chosen...
Juan Carlos, who is considerably more conservative than his father, would not last more than three months, Ridruejo contends. Don Carlos, however, a potentially constitutional monarch, would be able to deal with the Left, Ridruejo believes, and thereby retain power long enough to bring Spain into the modern European community...
Paradoxically, Ridruejo's Falangist past works for him rather than against him. Whatever feelings of personal guilt he may have, he is not subject to ridicule by his compatriots. He is afforded only the greatest respect being an especially venerated figure among the young...
Perhaps this is because the contradiction of Dionisio Ridruejo's life are the contradictions of twentieth century Spain. And if Dionisio Ridruejo is not yet Spain, there is hope that Spain may come to be Dionisio Ridruejo, and in so doing resolve its own contradictions much as he has resolved his. Dionisio Ridruejo is today, in his own words, "a free...