Manuel Fraga: Biography of a Fascist Tyrant
Born in Vilalba (Lugo) on the 23rd of November 1922, Manuel Fraga is the father of five children and was married and separated to Mrs. María del Carmen Estévez, who passed away on the 23rd of February 1996. He is a doctor in Law, Political Science and Economics, a university professor, counsel for the Franco's Parliament and diplomat, all positions having been acquired by public examination during the Franco's fascist dictatorship. Being a self-convinced fascist man, Manuel Fraga very soon voluntary joined the "Falange Española de las JONS" (the Franco's one-party). He was a very prominent member of the Franco's regime of terror: a general secretary of the Institute of Hispanic Culture in 1951; national secretary of the National Education Council, technical general secretary for the Ministry of Education in 1953 and National Councillor of the Franco Government. Finally, he was awarded by the Caudillo with the Ministry for Information (Agitation and Propaganda Department) and Vice-president for the first Government of the Spanish Monarchy.
During his run as Minister for Information, a position to which Fraga was appointed in 1962, he ordered the extreme-repressive Law of the Press and Printing, along with the Advertising Statute, two of the most important pillars of the fascist regime.
In 1973, Manuel Fraga was appointed Ambassador for Spain in the United Kingdom, a position that he held for two years. In 1975, after the Franco's death, Fraga returned to Spain with the only idea of being nominated as the Caudillo's sucessor. When King Juan Carlos decided not to appoint him as the president of the Spanish Government, Manuel Fraga became almost furious and required Juan Carlos to be appointed as Ministry for Governation. From that position, Fraga ordered the Montejurra killings, in which three persons were assassinated by Spanish paramilitar Corps.
Along with other six former Franco's Ministers, he founded in 1977 the extreme-right wing party Alianza Popular (Popular Alliance), to best fight against what he called "the most dangerous enemies of Spain: communism and separatism".
As the best Spanish propaganda maestro ever, since the 5th of February 1990, Manuel Fraga has been the president of the Xunta after three more and more manipulated electoral processes. Curiously, he was in 1978 the leader of the fascist movement that opposed the autonomies in Spain, very specially the Galician one.
During his run as President of the Xunta, Fraga promoted nepotism, bribery and corruption. He turned the Galician Parliament into a dead organ and got a peculiar success: while Spain grew economically in the period 1991-1999, Galicia was instead more and more sunk in unemployment and poverty.
Personal friend of some of the most terrible dictators of the world (Fidel Castro, Pinochet, Gaddafi), shamefully, Manuel Fraga is a member of numerous European organisations, among which the Committee of Regions most notably stands out. As a self-worship and overbearing man, he is really very famous -even admired- because of his public fits of bad temper and his personal insistence on being known as "Don Manuel". Manuel Fraga is the author of 87 propaganda books which mainly comment upon political science and State Theory, but none of them has ever sold a penny. Presently, he is a very sick man, partially crippled, quite blind and very affected by Parkinson disease, but he has already announced his will to run for presidency in next elections.
