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In January 1914 Mercado and Salazar were again attacked by Pancho Villa, this time at the border town Ojinaga, Chihuahua. Both were defeated and forced across the river to Presidio, Texas. There they were arrested by the American army and interned at Fort Bliss. Salazar was charged with smuggling munitions into Mexico.
Salazar was, in effect, the dictator of Portugal, but he preferred a passive public and a limited state where social power remained in the hands of the Church, the army, and the big landowners. [66] Samuel Hoare , the British Ambassador in Madrid during the war, stated that Salazar detested Hitler and all his works. [ 67 ]
Chief of the Government (1940) Chief of the French State (1940–1944) 1945: Crimes against humanity and Treason Pierre Laval France: Chief of the Government (1931–1932, 1935–1936, 1940 & 1942–1944) 1945: Crimes against humanity and Treason (Executed by firing squad) Vidkun Quisling Norway: Minister President of Norway (1942–1945) 1945
In 1960, at the initiation of Salazar's more outward-looking economic policy, Portugal's per capita GDP was only 38 percent of the European Community (EC-12) average; by the end of the Salazar period, in 1968, it had risen to 48 percent; and in 1973, under the leadership of Marcelo Caetano, Portugal's per capita GDP had reached 56.4 percent of ...
Dr. Simpson will be examining more than 400 letters sent spontaneously to the Portuguese dictator by common citizens in the mid-1960s during the lecture ‘O Povo de Salazar’ (Salazar’s People).
A man allegedly punched a poll worker at an early voting site in Texas after he was asked to remove his red "MAGA" or "Trump" baseball cap, according to an incident report. Jesse Lutzenberger, 63 ...
The 28 May 1926 coup d'état or, during the period of Estado Novo, the National Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução Nacional), was a military action that put an end to the chaotic Portuguese First Republic and initiated the Ditadura Militar (Military Dictatorship) which in 1928 transitioned into the Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship ...
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