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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 ]
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.
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
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).
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 ...
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 ...
Jose Gustavo Arocha, a former high-ranking Venezuelan military official and senior fellow at the U.S.-based Center for a Secure Free Society, told Fox News Digital that Trump’s order was an ...
The Portuguese filmmaker Rui Simões directed, wrote the screenplay, and produced the film for the film collective Cooperativa Virver.The work was financed mainly by the Portuguese state Instituto Português de Cinema (today the Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual, ICA), with the participation of the public television broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP).