Miguel Primo de Rivera
Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 · Spain · Politicians · Lived 1870 to 1930 · aged 60
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Something wrong?A Spanish general who seized power in 1923 promising a 90-day cleanup, then stayed seven years. His dictatorship suspended the constitution, crushed dissent, and poured money into roads and state monopolies until the economy buckled and his own officers turned on him.
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1908-06-09, La Correspondencia Militar, CSHSA
1923-09-22, La Esfera, De la vida que pasa. - España se transforma
1928-07-02, La Nación, Una boda aristocrática en el monasterio de Guisando
1929-10-01, Vida Gráfica Española, El General Primo de Rivera, Presidente del Consejo de Ministros y las Primeras Autoridades Civiles y Militares de Cataluña
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Born into Andalusian aristocracy in 1870, Primo de Rivera rose through the military ranks after fighting in Morocco in 1893, eventually reaching lieutenant general by 1919. On 13 September 1923, amid political chaos over Spain's failing colonial war in the Rif, he staged a coup with backing from Africanist generals and the quiet consent of King Alfonso XIII, suspended the 1876 constitution, and imposed martial law. After the Alhucemas landing crushed Rifian resistance in 1925, he shifted from military to civilian rule and launched a spending spree on infrastructure and state monopolies like Campsa. When inflation climbed and civic unrest spread, his generals withdrew their support; he resigned in January 1930 and died in exile two months later. His children José Antonio and Pilar later became fascist leaders.
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