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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]
Salazar became president, and Albino dos Reis, a former member of the Cunha Leal ULR, was nominated Vice President. The first Central Commission was composed by Bissaia Barreto, João Amaral, a judge and an integralist monarchist, and Nuno Mexia, who had been linked to the Union of Economic Interests (União dos Interesses Económicos) in the ...
Portugal was officially neutral during World War II and the period of the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe.The country had been ruled by an authoritarian political regime led by António de Oliveira Salazar but had not been significantly influenced by racial antisemitism and was considered more sympathetic to the Allies than was neighbouring Francoist Spain.
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).
U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, ... and that its vice president and general manager for South Florida had notified ... saying there is a resemblance between Trump and the late Cuban dictator, who ...
Operation Alacrity was the code name for a possible Allied seizure of Azores during World War II.It never took place because Portugal agreed to an Allied request for use of air bases.
A billboard criticizing former President Donald Trump by comparing him to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has been taken down, apparently because a congresswoman asked the advertiser to remove it.
In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raúl Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. The longest-serving non-royal head of state in the 20th and 21st centuries, Castro polarized world opinion.