Carrero Blanco: the pro-Nazi and anti-Semite sailor who could lead the Franco regime without Franco On June 9, 1973, Franco ceased to be President of the Government and handed over to the man who had been his right-hand man for several decades. Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco became the dictator's political successor. The new president had a mandate for which he felt fully qualified: to guarantee the continuity of that totalitarian regime after the death of the tyrant. As soon as he was sworn in before the still but already decrepit Head of State, Carrero met for 45 minutes with then-prince...