Carmen Polo was the wife of which 20th century dictator?
"Francisco Franco, 2nd Lord of Meirás ""Don"" Francisco de Asís Franco y Martínez-Bordiú, 2nd Lord of Meirás, Grandee of Spain, 11th Marquis of Villaverde (born 9 December 1954 in Madrid), is a Spanish aristocrat and grandson of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. In Spanish, his peerage is written El XI Marqués de Villaverde (English: The 11th Marquis of Villaverde). Francisco, a. k. a. Francis, is the third of seven children of surgeon Cristóbal, 10th Marqués de Villaverde, and his wife Carmen, 1st Duchess of Franco, the only child of ""Generalísimo"" Francisco Franco, the Spanish ""Caudillo"", and his wife Carmen Polo. His"
"son , would become the general secretary of a year later. Her last public appearance, shortly before her death, was a rally against the Rif War in Morocco. She died in Madrid on 15 August 1923. Virginia González Polo Virginia González Polo (Valladolid, 2 April 1873 – Madrid, 15 August 1923) was a political and feminist leader, socialist, and Spanish communist. She was born to a working-class family of 22 children. Her father was a lathe operator and her mother a weaver. She began work at nine, embroidering shoes. She married Lorenzo Rodríguez Echevarría and they moved to La Coruña"
"Virginia González Polo Virginia González Polo (Valladolid, 2 April 1873 – Madrid, 15 August 1923) was a political and feminist leader, socialist, and Spanish communist. She was born to a working-class family of 22 children. Her father was a lathe operator and her mother a weaver. She began work at nine, embroidering shoes. She married Lorenzo Rodríguez Echevarría and they moved to La Coruña where their only son, César Rodríguez González, was born. There she began to mingle in anarchist circles, joining the ""Society of Shoemakers and Embroiderers of La Coruña"" (Sociedad de Zapateros y Guarnicioneros de La Coruña). In"
"to her father. María del Carmen separated from her husband and moved to Paris, where she lived with the antiquarian Jean-Marie Rossi. On 7 February 1984, Polo's great-grandson Francisco (""Fran"") was killed at age eleven in a car accident. In her final years, Polo rarely left her house, hearing Mass at home. She isolated herself completely, ignoring (and being ignored by) the press and refusing to read anything about politics or about her husband. She explained ""It is necessary to have much Christian resignation, in light of the turmoils of my life."" Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás María del"
"dictatorship. Carlos Andrés Pérez became the target of harassment and persecution as a member of the Acción Democrática party. Blanca had to endure frequent security police searches of their home as well as tend to her young children while her husband was often on the run or in prison. In 1952, she followed him into exile in San José, Costa Rica. The couple had six children, five daughters, Sonia, Thais, Martha, María de los Ángeles and María Carolina, and a son, Carlos Manuel. When the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown in 1958, Blanca and Carlos Andrés Pérez returned"
"settled with his wife in Puerto Rico (1916), under close surveillance by spies sent by Juan Vicente Gómez, who later assumed the Venezuelan presidency in the longest dictatorship in the Latin America history. Castro spent the rest of his life in exile in Puerto Rico, making several plots to return to power — none of which were successful. Castro died 4 December 1924, in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Cipriano Castro was married to Zoila Rosa Martínez, who served as First Lady of Venezuela from 1899–1908. Castro's daughter was Rosa Castro (Lucille Mendez)(). Cipriano Castro José Cipriano Castro Ruiz (12 October 1858"
"wife, Isabel Perón, whom he had married on 15 November 1961, and who had been elected vice-president, succeeded him. She became the first female president in the Western Hemisphere. Isabel had Eva Perón's body returned to Argentina and (briefly) displayed beside her husband's. Perón's body was later buried in the Duarte family tomb in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires. The previous removal of Evita's body was avenged by the Montoneros when they in 1970 stole the corpse of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, whom they had previously killed. Montoneros then used the captive body of Aramburu to pressure for the repatriation of"
"February 21, 1994, he died of a stroke. 19th-century female leaders of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement Female members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Rosa Collazo Rosa Collazo a.k.a. Rosa Cortez-Collazo (1904 – May 1988) was a political activist and treasurer of the New York City branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She was the wife of Oscar Collazo one of two Nationalists who attacked Blair House in 1950 in an attempt to kill President Harry Truman. She was accused by the FBI of assisting Nationalists Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores and Andres Figueroa Cordero in"
"the group. Patricia Poleo Patricia Poleo is a Venezuelan journalist and winner of the King of Spain Journalism Award for her investigation into the whereabouts of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos. She is the daughter of the journalist Rafael Poleo, wife of the former student leader Nixon Moreno, a political scientist graduated from the University of the Andes, and former director of her father’s newspaper, El Nuevo País. She is known for her work and opposition to the current government in Venezuela. Poleo graduated on social communication with mention in advertising from the Andrés Bello Catholic University"
"useless to ask you to think of Spain. I have spoken."" Millán-Astray, controlling himself, shouted ""Take the lady's arm!"" Unamuno took Carmen Polo by the arm and left in her protection. Unamuno's quote """"Venceréis, pero no convenceréis"""" (""You will win, but you will not convince"") was, paradoxically, the slogan of the Salamanca municipality protesting the devolution from the General Archive of the Spanish Civil War to the Catalan Government of Catalan documentation seized during the war by the nationalist forces. Unamuno's heirs publicly decried this use. Unamuno left the hall escorting the wife of Franco, Carmen Polo de Franco, who"
"(English: Lady of Meirás), named after her and her husband's summer residence. She was also given the accompanying dignity ""Grande de España"" (English: Grandee of Spain). The title and dignity were inherited by her grandson Francisco Franco (who also became the 11th Marquis of Villaverde after the death of his father). In the ensuing years, Polo witnessed the disintegration of her family. On 31 January 1976, she left El Pardo for the last time. In 1978, Carmencita was arrested at Madrid Barajas International Airport for attempting to smuggle 300 million pesetas worth of gold, jewellery, and medals which had belonged"
"presidency. With time several corruption scandals involving the Pinochet family and the US emerged. President Michelle Bachelet was elected for the first time in 2006. Bachelet's father was a General loyal to Allende who was executed by the regime, and she herself was arrested and tortured during Pinochet's dictatorship. She was re-elected in the Chilean general election, 2013 Costa Rica was the only country in Latin America that never had a long lasting authoritarian government in the 20th century. Its only dictatorship during the period was after the 1917 Costa Rican coup d'état lead by Minister of War Federico Tinoco"
"an armed insurrection in November. The authoritarian regime, like its fascist counterparts in Europe, responded by imprisoning and torturing Prestes and violently crushing the Communist movement through state terror. Vargas, seeking to co-opt Brazil's fascist movement and paramilitary, known as ""Integralism"" and led by Plínio Salgado, tolerated a tide of anti-Semitism, and may have targeted Prestes' wife to appease his new supporters. Vargas deported the pregnant, German-Jewish wife of Luís Carlos Prestes, Olga Benario, to Nazi Germany, where she later died in a concentration camp. According to Prestes, he was a virgin until he met Olga Benario. After Vargas began"
"Arturo Uslar Pietri, Agustín Nieto Caballero, Miguel Otero Silva, Pablo Neruda, Georges Pillement, French politician Pierre Cot and his wife Luisa ""Nena"" Phelps-Cot, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Bevin and Colombian President Carlos Lleras Restrepo. - One of his mentors was Rómulo Gallegos. Juan Oropeza Juan Oropeza Riera (24 April 1906 – 29 November 1971) was a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat, writer, educator and political scientist. He was born in Carora in the state of Lara, and was the younger brother of pediatrics pioneer, Pastor Oropeza Riera. In his youth, he opposed the totalitarian regime of President Juan Vicente"
"Patricia Poleo Patricia Poleo is a Venezuelan journalist and winner of the King of Spain Journalism Award for her investigation into the whereabouts of Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori's right-hand man, Vladimiro Montesinos. She is the daughter of the journalist Rafael Poleo, wife of the former student leader Nixon Moreno, a political scientist graduated from the University of the Andes, and former director of her father’s newspaper, El Nuevo País. She is known for her work and opposition to the current government in Venezuela. Poleo graduated on social communication with mention in advertising from the Andrés Bello Catholic University on 31"
"a deteriorating political system. Military dictatorships were in the making in Chile, Argentina, Brasil and Uruguay. The departure of Neumann won right-wing newspaper headlines suspecting him of leaving the country in order to be trained by the French government in urban guerrilla. In the meantime, Neumann had married his second wife, Lily Salvo, an important painter and artist belonging to the Taller Torres Garcia. She was part of the active cultural life in Latin America, including Pablo Neruda and Ernesto Sabato. From their marriage a daughter named Mara was born. Andres, Lily and Mara left Uruguay in October 1972 and"
"over a year, shot in the head by his captors. On 27 December 2002, her maternal uncle the businessman, Helmut Bickenbach Plata of 69, and his wife the former Miss Colombia, Doris Inés Gil Santamaría of 63, were kidnapped from their home in Nocaima by the FARC and held captive for ransom; they were killed at point-blank range by the guerrillas on 23 June 2003 during a confrontation with Colombian Army. Nohra Puyana Bickenbach Nohra Puyana Bickenbach (born 29 May 1955) is the wife of the 30th President of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana Arango, and served as First Lady of Colombia"
"Isabella the Catholic. Carmen Calisto Carmen Calisto Ponce (b. 28 February 1942) is the wife of former Ecuadorian President Rodrigo Borja Cevallos and is thus the 36th First Lady of Ecuador, a position she held from 10 August 1988 to 9 August 1992. Carmen Calisto Ponce was born in Quito on 28 February 1942 the eldest daughter of Gonzalo Calisto Enríquez and María Ponce Martínez, making her a descendant of the Counts of Selva Florida through her mother. When Calisto's mother died in her youth, she took on the responsibility of looking after her younger siblings. On 16 December 1966,"
"dictatorship during which as many as 30,000 political dissidents disappeared, and is largely regarded as having begun at least two years after the death of Perón. The clip was viewed on YouTube over ten thousand times in Argentina and some politicians in the country called for the episode to be censored or banned. Lorenzo Pepe, former Justicialist Party congressman and president of the Juan Domingo Perón Institute, said ""this type of program causes great harm, because the disappearances are still an open wound here."" Some reacted negatively to Lenny's response to Carl's comment: ""Plus, his wife was Madonna"", a reference"
"unpopular Mexican presidents in recent history. López Portillo was the last economic nationalist president to emerge from the ranks of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Subsequent presidents have all been for free trade (""librecambismo""). López Portillo's first wife was Carmen Romano. However, López Portillo after his presidency divorced Carmen and married in 1995 his longtime partner, the Yugoslavian-born actress Sasha Montenegro. They had two children (Nabila and Alejandro) but later separated. He was the brother of late Mexican novelist Margarita López Portillo, who died on May 8, 2006, of natural causes. He died in Mexico City when he was 83 years"
"in the Fifties. He was last married to Dolores, who survived his own death in Cordoba. She mourned amongst other world leaders he had befriended, such as Salvador Allende from the neighboring Chile. He also had personal ties, through his travels that were far and wide, to President Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor, and Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, about whom he was doing research in preparation for his next book, just prior to his death, following ""Mental Health in China"" which had been translated into several languages. He was also survived by two children, both Psychiatrists in the family tradition. Bermann's son,"
"to writing and to his wife Dr. Renee Hartmann. He died on 28 September 1981 in Doctors Hospital in New York City. On his death US President Ronald Reagan made the following statement: Betancourt was married to Carmen Valverde, who served as First Lady of Venezuela from 1945–1948, and 1959–1964. Virginia Betancourt Valverde was the Betancourt's only child. Divorced he married Dr. Renee Hartmann. Rómulo Betancourt was a very close friend of the Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marín, visiting the island often and frequently exchanging political views with him, viewing him as a political advisor on democracy. Although"
"of the executed political prisoners, had fled and surrendered to the Portuguese colonial authorities before 1974 (the latter in fear of his life). But not Simango, Gumane or Gwengere who had simply moved to the rival Liberation movement COREMO. The strategic reason for executing Celina Simango, not a prominent political figure, years later in 1982, is even less clear. What the executed leaders had in common was membership of the 1974 opposition party (PCN) and the attempt to challenge FRELIMO hegemony and one-party rule through multiparty elections. A biography of Simango was published in 2004. In 2006, Joana Simeao's husband,"
"Francisco Antonio Martins attacked the Paraguayan camp at 1900 along the Aquidaban River. Present with President Francisco Solano López's personal guard were a group of women, led by his mistress Eliza Lynch. This group was composed of the soldier's wives, daughters, and others, who supported the soldiers called ""Las Residentas"". Vice President Francisco Sánchez and Secretary of State Luis Caminos were killed trying to flee. López was surrounded by six cavalrymen, and after refusing to surrender by firing his revolver, Corporal José Francisco Lacerda (known as ""Chico Diabo"", i.e., ""Frank, the Devil"") thrust his lance in López's abdomen, mortally wounding"
"Porfirio Rubirosa Count Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22, 1909 – July 5, 1965) was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player. He was an adherent of the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and was also rumored to be a political assassin under his regime. Rubirosa made his mark as an international playboy for his jetsetting lifestyle and his legendary sexual prowess with women. Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world. Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza was born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, the third and youngest child of an upper-middle-class family. His parents were"
"brothers. The Legion and supporting units relieved the Spanish enclave of Melilla after a three-day forced march led by Franco. In 1923, by now a lieutenant colonel, he was made commander of the Legion. On 22 October 1923, Franco married María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdès (11 June 1900 – 6 February 1988). Three years later the couple had a daughter, María del Carmen. Following his honeymoon Franco was summoned to Madrid to be presented to King Alfonso XIII. This and other occasions of royal attention would mark him during the Republic as a monarchical officer. Promoted to colonel, Franco"
"Carlos Prestes, the father of Anita Leocádia and former partner of Olga Benário, eventually struck a political partnership with him in order to avoid Vargas' immediate ousting in 1945, which was demanded both by his more rightist domestic opponents and by Adolf Berle as US ambassador. This move was in line with Popular Front Communist policies of the time: Prestes argued that, by declaring himself against Vargas' immediate resignation, he wanted to avoid a ""redemptory coup"" as well as to take a stand against ""the decrepit remains of reaction"". Jorge Amado, in his 1942 biographical novel ""Vida de Luis Carlos"
"study in which Ramón Mercader killed Trotsky with an ice axe to the back of the head. Around the house is a garden and high walls with watchtowers. The complex was turned into the current museum and asylum institution in 1990, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination. Trotsky was forced into exile outside the Soviet Union in February 1929 because of his criticism of Joseph Stalin's government. For the next eight years, Trotsky and his wife, Natalia Sedova, wandered among several countries under surveillance, and later under a death sentence due to Trotsky's persistent political activity against Stalin from"
"was replaced by Colonel Vasco Gonçalves, a choice that Spínola would later regret. After leaving office, Palma Carlos was the national representative (""mandatário"") of general António Ramalho Eanes for the 1980 Presidential Elections. He was married to Elina Júlia Chaves Pereira Guimarães (Lisbon, 1904 – 1991). Adelino da Palma Carlos Adelino da Palma Carlos, , , (; Faro, 3 May 1905 – Lisbon, 25 October 1992), was a Portuguese lawyer, scholar, politician and a freemason, one of at least five sons of Manuel Carlos and wife Auta Vaz Velho da Palma. He was an opponent of the fascist regime of"
"tenure (2002–2006), had been a party activist and candidate for Presidenta Municipal of Celaya on the PAN party ticket, and was briefly considered a contender for PAN's nomination to run for either the Jefe de Gobernación (Governor of the Federal District) or President in the 2006 election. Margarita Zavala, wife of Felipe Calderón, was a deputy from 2003 to 2006. Revolutionary era. Post-Revolutionary era. , there are five living former First Ladies, as identified below. The most recent First Lady to die was Carmen Romano (served 1976–1982), on 9 May 2000, at the age of 74. First Lady of Mexico"
"married María de la Luz del Valle y Menéndez, without issue. After serving in various positions, including Mayor of Madrid from 1965 to June 1973, Arias became Minister of Governance in June 1973. After the assassination of the Prime Minister (""Presidente del Gobierno"") Luis Carrero Blanco he was appointed to that office as the 155th on 31 December 1973, a position he continued to hold after the death of Franco. Carlos Arias Navarro had the support of the Franco family, most notably Carmen Polo, and retained the post during the transition to democracy. However, the garroting of the Catalan anarchist"
"even after her return to Santiago. Gana died 15 April 1880, and is buried in the Cementerio General de Santiago. Carmen Gana López María del Carmen Gana López (180015 April 1880) was a Chilean aristocrat and a First Lady of Chile. Gana López was the daughter of Agustín Domingo Gana y Darrigrande and María Dolores López y Guerrero Villaseñor. She married Manuel Blanco Encalada on 29 November 1818, and together they had 6 children. She was a confidant and adviser for her husband throughout his political career. Blanco acted as Interim President of Chile from 9 July 1826 until 9"
"14 dictators under the title of ""president"", one every 1.7 years on average. In that period, the democratically elected governments (radicals, peronists and radical-developmentalists) were interrupted by coups. The military coup of September 6, 1930 was led by General José Félix Uriburu and overthrew president Hipólito Yrigoyen of the Radical Civic Union, who had been democratically elected to exercise his second term in 1928. In an unprecedented move, Uriburu also dissolved Parliament. Paradoxically, General Uriburu had been one of the organizers of the Revolution of the Park, a civic-military uprising that give rise to the Radical Civic Union. On September"