Carlos Arias Navarro

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Arias and the second or maternal family name is Navarro.
Tomás Garicano Goñi
Succeeded byJosé García Hernández
Mayor of Madrid
In office
5 February 1965 – 12 June 1973
Preceded byJosé Finat y Escrivá de Romaní
Succeeded byMiguel Ángel García-Lomas
Director General of State Security
In office
25 June 1957 – 5 February 1965
PresidentFrancisco Franco
Preceded byRafael Hierro Martínez
Succeeded byMariano Tortosa Sobejano
Personal details
Born
Carlos Arias Navarro

(1908-12-11)11 December 1908
Popular Alliance
(1977–1989)
People's Party
(1989)
SpouseMaría de la Luz del Valle y Menéndez
Signature

Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro (11 December 1908 – 27 November 1989) was the prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.

Arias Navarro was a hardline politician and was involved in the White Terror, having signed thousands of death warrants during the dismantling of the Spanish Republic. Later, he was a more moderate leader during his premiership.[1]

Early life

Arias Navarro was born in Madrid on 11 December 1908. He served in the Ministry of Justice since 1929 as attorney in Málaga and Madrid.

Francoist Spain

Arias Navarro and Franco in 1975

Arias was close to the right-wing sectors and joined the Francoist side during the Spanish Civil War. He was public prosecutor in the trials set up by the Francoists in Málaga[2] after the conquest of the city. There, he earned the nickname the "Butcher of Málaga" (Carnicero de Málaga)[3] for his role in the imposition of capital punishment to true or perceived sympathizers of the Republicans,[4] In one of the harshest repressions following the Francoist victory, an estimated total of 17,000 people were summarily executed.[5][6][7]

He married María de la Luz del Valle y Menéndez, without issue.[8]

After serving in various positions, including

transition to democracy. However, the garroting of the Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich in March 1974 had already shown his aversion to political liberalization, while other events, including the executions in September 1974, the organization of the Green March in November 1975 by King Hassan II of Morocco
, and the illness and death of Franco (which Arias announced on television), displayed his weaknesses and further eroded his authority.

Franco's successor as head of state, King

José María de Areilza
) that instituted the first reforms, however unwillingly. He tried to continue Franco's late policies, opposing any change. After a lengthy power struggle, Juan Carlos forced his resignation on 1 July 1976.

The next day, the King granted him the hereditary title of Marqués de Arias Navarro (

Grande de España
(English: Grandee of Spain). On his death, the title of Marquess was inherited by his nephew Miguel Ángel Arias-Navarro.

Arias was succeeded by

Fuerza Nueva, Blas Piñar
. Arias, however, never again occupied a relevant position in the later Spanish government.

Both left and extreme right attacked him, calling him by the nickname "The Old Pusillanimous".

Later years

In his first democratic election the party joined

Popular Alliance (AP), led by Manuel Fraga, being senate candidate for Madrid, but was not elected. He died on 27 November 1989 when he was 80 years of age from an infarction,[9] and was buried at Mingorrubio Cemetery in El Pardo.[10]
His wife died in 1997.

Spain and Portugal

According to the Spanish daily

Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger
, on 18 March, stated that "appropriate steps" were being taken to ensure that "the events in Portugal did not cross the border into Spain."

Ingersoll went on to add that Spain wanted Washington to support Spain in the event of war, precisely at a time when the US was renegotiating the status of its military bases, and Arias wanted Washington to support Spain's future membership of NATO.

References

  1. ^ Ignacio Fontes; Manuel Ángel Menéndez: El parlamento de papel: La mirada gráfica, el enfoque literario, 2004, p. 126
  2. ISBN 9781101201206
    .
  3. ISBN 9780375755156
    .
  4. ^ "Málaga XX, Historia de un siglo: La Segunda República y la Guerra Civil". Diario Sur (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  5. Joly Digital. Archived
    from the original on 21 August 2008. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  6. ^ Martín, Lucas (23 July 2008). "San Rafael: la mayor fosa del país". La Opinión de Málaga (in Spanish). Editorial Prensa Ibérica. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  7. Publico
     (in Spanish). Display Connectors, S.L. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Carlos Arias Navarro, 1. marqués de Arias Navarro". Geneall. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  9. Prisa
    . 28 November 1989. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  10. Prisa
    . 29 November 1989. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  11. ^ El País 3 November 2008

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Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Madrid
1965–1973 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Tomás Garicano Goñi
 Minister of Government
1973–1974 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Spain
1973–1976 		Succeeded by
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz

(acting)
Spanish nobility
New title Marquess of Arias Navarro
1976–1989 		Miguel Ángel Arias-Navarro y Villegas
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