Luis Carrero Blanco’s assassination, despite much pearl clutching, helped to weaken Franco’s regime. So, when he died two years later, there wasn’t a solid power structure in place to continue fascism in Spain.
By that time there was a lot brewing in Spain for quite a long time, but it might have helped to reduce the opposition to successor’s reforms. We will never know for sure, of course
Luis Carrero Blanco’s assassination, despite much pearl clutching, helped to weaken Franco’s regime. So, when he died two years later, there wasn’t a solid power structure in place to continue fascism in Spain.
Fun story, he was killed with a bomb which caused the car he was in to fly so far into the air that he’s often referred to as Spain’s first astronaut.
It’s worth reading the whole account if how the bombing was executed, FWIW
In other news, here in Spain that joke is old enough to not make anyone laugh any more …
By that time there was a lot brewing in Spain for quite a long time, but it might have helped to reduce the opposition to successor’s reforms. We will never know for sure, of course