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    José Calvo Sotelo, 1st Duke of Calvo Sotelo, GE (6 May 1893 – 13 July 1936) was a Spanish jurist and politician. He was the minister of finance during...
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    The assassination of José Calvo Sotelo took place in Madrid, Spain, in the early morning of Monday 13 July 1936, during the Second Spanish Republic, when...
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  • Calvo Sotelo can refer to: José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician assassinated in 1936 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish prime minister from 1981 to 1982...
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    his father, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, and his mother, Mercedes Bustelo Márquez. The assassination of his uncle, José Calvo Sotelo, who had been finance...
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    José Calvo Sotelo. The monument was an initiative of the "National Junta" for the homage to the Glorious Proto-Martyr of the Crusade Don José Calvo Sotelo"...
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  • police and civilians who illegally detained the right-wing deputy José Calvo Sotelo, with the aim of assassinating him, which happened a few moments after...
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    Española think-tank, the party was led by Antonio Goicoechea and José Calvo Sotelo. In 1937, during the course of the Spanish Civil War, it formally...
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    and other leftist militiamen mortally shot the opposition leader José Calvo Sotelo on 12 July 1936. This assassination convinced many military officers...
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  • renamed "Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo" in 2000, when Santiago Calvo-Sotelo and Olry de Labry, grandson of politician José Calvo Sotelo, joined the firm. In...
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  • band Periphery Gumercindo Álvarez Sotelo (born 1962), Mexican politician from the National Action Party José Calvo Sotelo (1893–1936), Spanish jurist and...
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    Renovación Española political party and its leader José Calvo Sotelo. Outrage over both Calvo Sotelo's 1936 assassination and the Red Terror unleashed by...
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    and leftist gunmen, drove to the home of José Calvo Sotelo — leader of the monarchist party and a rival of José Antonio Primo de Rivera for leadership of...
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    it and turning towards the belligerent Alfonsist monarchist leader José Calvo Sotelo. Subsequently, the CEDA abandoned its moderation and legalism and...
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    Dictatorship, such as the conservative Juan de la Cierva or the Maurists (José Calvo Sotelo, José Antonio Gamazo, César de la Mora or César Silió, although Antonio...
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  • names, Carlos Faraudo and José del Castillo, were both killed. The murders, and the reprisal killing of José Calvo Sotelo, were instrumental in bringing...
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    campaign chest over to the army plotter Emilio Mola. The monarchist José Calvo Sotelo replaced CEDA's Gil-Robles as the right-wing leader in the Cortes...
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  • Bernardo Calvo Rosales, Costa Rican politician José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician Kristof Calvo, Belgian politician Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish...
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    then Director General of Local Administration, the former Maurista José Calvo Sotelo. The preamble of the Statute stated that "the State, in order to be...
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    underway, but nothing definite had been planned. Then on 13 July, José Calvo Sotelo, leader of a small monarchist grouping in the Cortes, was arrested...
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    summarily executed Calvo Sotelo by shooting him in the back of the neck. Hugh Thomas concludes that Condés intended to arrest Sotelo, and that Cuenca acted...
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    military personnel or members of the Grandee. Politicians like José Canalejas, José Calvo Sotelo, as well as royals as Alfonso XIII, and since 1975 Juan Carlos...
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    among them stood out "the rising stars of corporate authoritarianism: José Calvo Sotelo [a former "maurista" who in the previous two years had occupied the...
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  • Family talks (1878–2003) is the third book by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, published by La Esfera de los libros in year 2003, four years after his previous work...
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    delivered the ship to the Nationalists. She was taken back by the gunboat Calvo Sotelo. José Luis Díez was decommissioned and scrapped in 1965. Alberca 2014, p...
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    the movement created around him. Other notable Mauristas were José Calvo Sotelo, José Félix de Lequerica, Fernando Suárez de Tangil and César Silió....
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    Franco (Caudillo of Spain), Luis Carrero Blanco, José Antonio Primo de Rivera and José Calvo Sotelo. Although categorising the war as a crusade, Pope...
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  • José Calvo Sotelo, he left the Maurist Party, later joining the Spanish Renovation in Asturias, becoming one of its leaders along with Calvo Sotelo himself...
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  • opposition was mostly catastrophic in nature. After the election José Calvo Sotelo became the leading speaker of the anti-revolutionary right in the...
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  • leaders who was responsible for the murder of the right-wing politician José Calvo Sotelo, an accusation that Burillo always rejected. Burillo was born in Córdoba...
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    was largely the brainchild of Primo de Rivera's finance minister, José Calvo Sotelo. Spain benefited from the European post-World War I boom, but the...
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