Miguel Primo de Rivera

Miguel Primo de Rivera (born Jan. 8, 1870, Cádiz, Spain—died March 16, 1930, Paris, France) was a general and statesman who, as dictator of Spain from September 1923 to January 1930, founded an authoritarian and nationalistic regime that attempted to unify the nation around the motto “Country, Religion, Monarchy.” Though it enjoyed success in certain areas, his repressive government failed to create an acceptable political system and succumbed to the widespread discontent that it had...