Unknown patriarchal dictator Primo de Rivera

There are verifiable and recognized figures and historical data so far. However, for this period History has always passed in silence, so much so that “few historians” Empty parenthesis in Restore But researcher Gerardo Muñoz from Alicante has devoted the last two years to contradicting this statement and put it black on white in the book. The dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. The six years that cost Alfonso XIII the throne (Almuzara), estimating the centennial of that coup It will be implemented in 2023.

“Primo de Rivera was not the idiot without ideology, as is believed, but a patriarchal dictatorship Y a cunning politician, with a few pangs of conscience that promoted Nationalist regime compatible with European dictatorships The author and member of the Valencian Cultural Council says “contemporary” about this “forgotten and unknown” figure who is the “creator of our time”. Right-wing populism in Spain denouncing politicians as corrupt and parasitic elites”.

He was also Primo de Rivera. conflicted politician. A book dictator, but one who takes conciliatory measures. “disappoint everyone because he always played with uncertainty; Left, right, Republicans, Falangists came out unsatisfied…” he writes. annual disaster, Coinciding with the book published last year centennial of the war.

“He wanted please everyone, Catalan regionalists and Catalan businessmen; he was also an abandoner, he wanted Spain. Coming out of the war in Moroccothe withdrawal of the Spanish army to Ceuta and Melilla; even the British wanted to exchange with Gibraltar and Ceuta”. Move to Ben Tieb, The city, 80 km from Melilla, where a legion camp headed by Colonel Francisco Franco is located, denied his speech, calling it cowardice.

Social, economic and political balance

includes book fifty paintings and about 40 paintings. “This is not the biography of Primo de Rivera, a book about dictatorshipso I have established the social, economic and political balance of the period, which is the most unique thing the book has”.

Gerardo Munoz Author of 16 essays and 13 novels, collects in these graphs what this time means for society . “He did not order anyone to be killed because of political opposition, he was imprisoned or exiled, but He didn’t kill like Franco. Some of his followers even condemned him for being soft.”

Rivera’s cousin clashed with the church because it supports UGT to create joint committeeswas like the existing business councils. “He created his own party, a unique party, patriotic unionbut still legal unions sour CNT; Yes, as long as they do not confront Catholic unions and free unions from the right; agreed to defend the workers and even Strikes were allowed as long as they weren’t political“.

Primo de Rivera, through his minister Calvo Sotelowanted to make one tax reform, “So that the one with the most can pay more, but he had to withdraw because they were all facing him.” He also made an economic policy state interventionism “Constituent Campsa monopoly “Nationalizing the entire oil industry in Spain, turning their backs on everyone who runs this industry in the country,” he says. hydrographic confederations, the Tourist Board, and the “monopoly” telephone and one Iberia“.

Contradictions were also evident in the personal sphere because allowed himself to be swayed by the “urges”. “He was a gambler, a drunkard, and wandered around with prostitutes, but he made laws against gambling, drinking and pornographyHe also thought that “running the country is like running barracks, and budgets go through the triumphal arch or the Supreme Court getting in trouble with a law.”

Eventually the country entered a “very significant” monetary crisis, but “in previous years some industrial prosperitya certain social peace among the city workers, not in the field of agriculture and through joint committees”.

The problem is the price to be paid:Eliminating individual and collective rights, What has happened in China for several decades is that it has economic and social prosperity in exchange for not having any political rights.”

The fall of Primo de Rivera, who was forced to go into exile, indirectly coerced by the king himself and died two months after leaving, also fall of the monarchy. “Associating the throne with a dictatorship led to its downfall. After Primo de Rivera came General Dámaso Berenguer, who imposed a white dictatorship, but this was only to prolong the suffering of Alfonso XIII.”