Admiral-General Luis Carrero Blanco was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. A long-time confidant and right-hand man of dictator Francisco Franco, Carrero served as Prime Minister of Spain.
Luis Carrero Blanco
Carrero at the Gando Airport, Gran Canaria (1947).
Memorial plaque at the place of the assassination of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.
Francoist Spain, also known as Nationalist Spain, Falangist Spain, the Franco regime, or the Franco dictatorship, officially the Spanish State, was a state established in Nationalist-held territories
Luis Carrero Blanco
…participated in the Rif War, and later the Spanish Civil War, in which he supported the Nationalist faction. He became one of the most prominent figures in Francoist Spain's power structure and held throughout his career a number of high-ranking offices such as those of Minister-Under Secretary of the Presidency from 1941…
Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler at the Meeting at Hendaye, 1940
Franco and U.S. President Gerald Ford riding in a ceremonial parade in Madrid, 1975
Armed forces in San Sebastián, 1942
Francoist demonstration in Salamanca in 1937