Fraga was said to have been slow to react and unable, or even unwilling, to handle the situation.

In 1976, at the beginning of the transition to democracy, minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne visited Las Hurdes and drew a plan to do away with the bad name of the region and boost its economy called Plan Hurdes.

Fraga at the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2009.

When in 1989 the AP merged with other parties to form the People's Party ( PP ), with Manuel Fraga as its president, Rajoy was named a member of its National Executive Committee and delegate for Pontevedra.

Fraga is a Galician word for " natural woodland ", ( old-growth forest ) and the park is an example of a temperate rainforest in which oak ( Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica ) is the climax vegetation.

Ironically, the community had a distinction for being the population with the lowest level of illiteracy on the island of Flores: a fact that was attributed to professor Fraga ( their local school teacher ), who died in 1929.

Fraga worked for both Fernando Henrique Cardoso government.

Incidents of social unrest in subsequent years helped prompt the Fraga Law in 1904, which provided for the inclusion of neighborhood representatives as commissioners in their respective precincts.

Daniella Mastricchio ( born November 18, 1987 ) is a child star, who is perhaps better known for her role as Sol Fraga in 1995's Telefe telenovela, " Chiquititas ".

Daniela Mastricchio was cast as " Sol Fraga " at the age of seven, although her role was of a much younger girl, for the popular children's soap opera " Chiquititas ".

* Augusto Pacheco Fraga, Brazilian footballer

Arminio Fraga ( born July 20, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian economist who was president of the Central Bank of Brazil from 1999 to 2002.

Denise Rodrigues Fraga Villaça ( born October 15, 1965 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ) is a Brazilian actress.

Following this period ( 1994 – 1999 ) of a quasi-fixed exchange rate, an inflation-targeting policy was instituted by new central bank president Arminio Fraga, which effectively meant that the fixed-exchange period was over.

A non-professional acting company from Brazil, named Nós do Morro (' We of the hillside '), in collaboration with a Gallery 37 group from Birmingham, gave a single performance of the play during the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, directed by Guti Fraga.

Until that moment, Fraga was known as a heavy-handed politician, though also seen as one of the reformers seeking a liberalisation from within the regime, but the drastic measures he took as chief of state security during the first days of the Spanish transition to democracy deeply damaged his popularity.

Fraga was one of the writers of the democratic constitution and spent part of his political career lessening the censorship law during dictatorship.

In June 1977, during the first free general elections held since 1936, Arias integrated the Alianza Popular, a right-wing party created by Manuel Fraga.

* February 5 – Manuel Fraga becomes the president of Galicia, Spain.

After a brief period as Spain's ambassador in the United Kingdom, which ended with Franco's death ( 1975 ), Manuel Fraga was appointed vice president and Interior Minister ( Ministro de Gobernación ) in 1976, under Carlos Arias Navarro's government, the first with Juan Carlos I as chief of state.

Later in the same year, Fraga encouraged the election of José María Aznar as the party's new president.

Fraga was then appointed as honorary president of the PP.

Subsequently, in the autonomous elections of 2005, Fraga and the PPdeG lost their absolute majority in the Parliament of Galicia, and despite obtaining elections with a 45 % plurality, a left government coalition between the Socialist Party of Galicia ( PSdeG ) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc was formed with socialist Emilio Pérez Touriño as the new president.

He died in September 1134 after an unsuccessful battle with the Muslims at the Battle of Fraga.

His final campaigns were against Mequinenza ( 1133 ) and Fraga ( 1134 ), where García Ramírez, the future king of Navarre, and a mere 500 other knights fought with him.

* Ferdinand ( 1329 – 1363 ), Marquis of Tortosa and Lord of Albarracín and Fraga.

* 1922 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish Galicia politician ( d. 2012 )

* At the battle of Fraga, the Castellan troops led by king Alfonso the Battler defeat the Almoravid army thanks to a timely intervention of a Norman crusader army from Tarragona led by Robert Burdet.

* Castillan defeat at the battle of Fraga against Muslim troops: Alfonso I of Aragon is killed, and succeeded by Ramiro II in Aragon and Garcia VI in Navarre.

* October 24 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona conquers Lérida from the Almoravids after a siege of seven months as well as Fraga.

Fraga (;, ) is the major town of the comarca of Bajo Cinca () in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain.

Under the orders of Interior Minister Manuel Fraga, the police stormed on a shooting spree into a packed church into which demonstrators had retreated, resulting in five dead and over 100 wounded.

With Fraga focused on the presidency of Galicia, Aznar was confirmed as leader of the PP at their 10th National Congress at the end of March 1990.

The project was designed by architect Ricardo Legorreta and promoted by the governor of San Luis Potosi, Marcelo de los Santos Fraga.

The next year, Fraga, Lleida and Mequinenza in the confluence of the Segre and Ebro rivers fell to his army.

Manuel Fraga Iribarne (; 23 November 1922 – 15 January 2012 ) was a Spanish People's Party politician.

Fraga was born in Vilalba, Lugo Province, Galicia.

Under the orders of Interior Minister Manuel Fraga, the police stormed on a shooting spree into a packed church into which demonstrators had retreated, resulting in five dead and over 100 wounded, from 4000 people into the church.

Fraga was one of the writers of the new Spanish constitution approved in 1978.

The party fared poorly in its first years, but after the 1982 crisis and breakup of the UCD, the moderate-conservative party which had won the first two democratic presidential elections, AP became the second party in Spain, and Fraga was considered Leader of the Opposition to the Socialist government.

Following this critical development, Fraga resigned the presidency of the party in 1986.

Fraga came back in charge in 1989, determined to stop AP's crisis.