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Francisco Franco: United States
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In 1968, Franco granted Equatorial Guinea independence from Spain. In 1969, he freed the Moroccan city of Ifni from Spanish control as well. That year, he ... designated a successor to his rule, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. In the early 1970s, he began retreating from his position as head of state and many political factions began their attempts to position themselves for succession.
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Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog begon Franco de bakens te verzetten. Om te beginnen werd in 1947 in naam de monarchie hersteld. Verder rangeerde de Caudillo zijn zwager, de radicale falangist Serrano Suñer, op een zijspoor. Zo maakte hij zich, in de verhoudingen van de Koude Oorlog, aanvaardbaar als partner voor de Verenigde Staten. Zo kon Amerika enkele militaire faciliteiten in Spanje krijgen. Maar de Europese bondgenoten verhinderden dat Spanje, zoals dat wel met het Portugal van Salazar gebeurd was, lid kon worden van de NAVO.
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Lacking any strong ideology, Franco initially sought support from National syndicalism (aka: sindicalismo nacional) and the Roman Catholic Church (catolicismo nacional). His coalition ruling single party, the Movimiento Nacional, was so heterogeneous as to barely qualify as a party at all, and certainly not an ideological monolith like the Fascio di Combattimento (Fascist Party) or the ruling block of Antonio Salazar. His Spanish State was chiefly a conservative - even traditionalist - rightist regime, with emphasis on order and stability, rather than a definite political vision..
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Franco's strong anti-Communism made him popular with the United States and in 1950 Spain was allowed to join the United Nations. In 1953 Franco signed an agreement that enabled the United States to establish four air and naval bases in Spain. In return the National Atlantic Treaty Organization protected Franco's regime from foreign invasion.
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The court is expected to decide within the next few months whether San Francisco flouted state law when it began issuing marriage licenses to gay couples Feb. 12. The city stopped granting the licenses March 11 in response to a court order.
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Following the Allied victories in 1945, Franco sought to impress the world's democratic powers with Spain's "liberal" credentials by issuing a fundamental law that was ostensibly a bill of rights--the Charter of Rights. The rights granted by this charter were more cosmetic than democratic, because the government bestowed them and could suspend them without justification; furthermore, the charter placed more emphasis on the duty of all Spaniards to serve their country and to obey its laws than on their basic rights as citizens. Thus, for example, the charter guaranteed all Spaniards the right to express their opinions freely, but they were not to attack the fundamental principles of the state.
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