# José Montilla ( 2000 – 17 December 2011 )

# José Montilla ( 2007 – 2008 ) ( Acting )

Though his party CiU won these both in number of votes and seats — unlike in the previous elections, it did not reach the absolute majority of seats in the parliament, allowing PSC's new candidate, José Montilla, to reach an absolute majority by repeating the coalition government with the same left-wing partners ( ERC and ICV ).

Barcelona football club and politicians including the ex-president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, José Montilla.

These included Rómulo Gallegos, Andrés Eloy Blanco, Luis Beltrán Prieto, Juan Oropeza, Luis Lander, Raúl Ramos, Medardo Medina, Enrique H. Marín, Rafael Padrón, Fernando Peñalver, Luis Augusto Dubuc, César Hernández, José V. Hernández and Ricardo Montilla.

**( 2004-2006 ): José Montilla

The 2006 regional election saw Convergència i Unió ( CiU ) increasing its numbers, while both the PSC and ERC lost seats, but still was not enough of an increase for CiU to block the formation of a second left-wing tripartite coalition ( PSC + ERC + ICV ), again led by PSC's, this time being José Montilla Aguilera the President of the Generalitat.

The celebrations were attended by the political luminaries, Speaker Gil Montilla, Congressman Pedro Magsalin, Honorable Nicolas Buendia, Honorable Eulogio Rodriguez, Honorable Elpidio Quirino and Governor José Padilla, Sr.

László was known in Argentina as Ladislao José Bíró.

During the World War II years the company was led by Schueg's son-in-law José ' Pepin ' Bosch.

Embittered Bacardi helmsman José Pepín Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries ( the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times ).

The act was aimed primarily at Havana Club brand in the US, which was created by the José Arechebala company which was confiscated without compensation in the Cuban revolution.

Chile's first experiment with self-government, the " Patria Vieja " ( old republic, 1810 – 1814 ), was led by José Miguel Carrera, an aristocrat then in his mid-twenties.

In 1886, José Manuel Balmaceda was elected president.

The capital was moved to San José in 1824, followed by a violent rivalry with Cartago.

Numerous secret societies emerged, of which the most important was the so-called " Soles y Rayos Bolívar ", founded in 1821 and led by José Francisco Lemus.

The 1830s saw a surge of the reformist movement, whose main leader was José Antonio Saco, standing out for his criticism of Spanish despotism and the slave trade.

José Antonio Saco, one of Cuba's foremost thinkers, was expelled from Cuba.

In the beginning Charles Alston's mural work was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, the latter who he met when they did mural work in New York.

Over £ 100 million was spent on new players, but Ranieri was unable to deliver any trophies, and was replaced by José Mourinho.

Among the many political documentaries produced in the early 1970s was " Chile: A Special Report ," public television's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the Salvador Allende government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced by documentarians Ari Martinez and José Garcia.

The Mondragon Corporation based out of the Basque Country in the region of Spain and France, was founded by a Catholic priest, Father José María Arizmendiarrieta, who seems to have been influenced by the same Catholic social and economic teachings that inspired Belloc, Chesterton, McNabb and the other founders of distributism.

The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.

Antonio José de Sucre, the brilliant young lieutenant of Bolívar who arrived in Guayaquil in May 1821, was to become the key figure in the ensuing military struggle against the royalist forces.

Juan José Flores known as the founder of the Republic was of the foreign military variety.

The most significant figure of the era, however, was General José María Urbina, who first came to power in 1851 through a coup d ' état, remained in the presidency until 1856, and then continued to dominate the political scene until 1860.

Much of the 20th century was dominated by one José María Velasco Ibarra, whose 5 presidential terms began with a mandate in 1934 and final presidency ended in 1972.

However, the coup de grâce for Mahuad's administration was Mahuad's decision to make the local currency, the sucre ( named after Antonio José de Sucre ), obsolete and replace it with the U. S. dollar ( a policy called dollarization ).

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

In 1945, the civilian president, Juan José Arévalo, was elected, and served until 1951.

Among the most important figures of the federal era include the first democratically elected president in Honduras, Dionisio de Herrera, a lawyer, whose government, begun in 1824 established the first constitution, Gen. Francisco Morazán, Federal President 1830-1834 and 1835 – 1839, whose figure embodies the ideal American Unionist, and José Cecilio del Valle, editor of the Declaration of Independence signed in Guatemala on September 15, 1821 and Foreign Minister of Mexico in 1823.

His book, The Outline of History was read by José Figueres Ferrer in 1920 while at MIT, the Costa Rican revolutionary and 3-time president, who took the book to heart, and permanently abolished the military of Costa Rica in 1948, and banned the military in the Constitution.

* 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.

The leader of this revolt, Gen. José María Moncada, declared that he supported the claim of exiled Liberal vice-president Juan Bautista Sacasa, who arrived in Puerto Cabezas in December, declaring himself president of a " constitutional " government.

At the start of the 20th century, Nicaraguan president José Santos Zelaya tried to arrange for Germany and Japan to finance the canal.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

Keating's friendship with Indonesian President Suharto was criticised by human rights activists supportive of East Timorese independence and by Nobel Peace Prize winner, José Ramos-Horta ( later to be East Timor's prime minister and president ).

In early 1988, the administration of Daniel José Ortega Saavedra ( Sandinista junta coordinator 1979-85, president 1985-90 ) established an austerity program to lower inflation.

The Colorado leader José Batlle y Ordóñez was elected president in 1903.

Uruguay's president José Mujica with the former President of Brazil Lula da Silva

José Batlle y Ordóñez, president from 1903 to 1907 and again from 1911 to 1915, set the pattern for Uruguay's modern political development.

In 2009, former Tupamaro and agriculture minister José Mujica, was elected president, subsequently succeeding Vázquez on March 1, 2010.

Uruguay's president José MujicaUruguay's Constitution of 1967 created a strong presidency, subject to legislative and judicial balance.

* December 5 – Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.

* July 17 – José de León Toral assassinates Álvaro Obregón, president of Mexico.

* January 2 – José Antonio Remón Cantera, president of Panama, is assassinated at a race track in Panama City.

* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.

In August 1919 a conservative president was elected – António José de Almeida ( whose Evolutionist party had come together in wartime with the PRP to form a flawed, because incomplete, Sacred Union ) – and his office was given the power to dissolve parliament.

Several members of the Argentine military junta have been found to be P2 members, such as Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Argentina's interim president from July 13, 1973 until October 12, 1973, Emilio Massera, part of Jorge Videla's military junta from 1976 to 1978, and José López Rega, the infamous founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (" Triple A ").

In 1905 president Pedro José Escalón began construction of the National Palace, funded by coffee exportation taxes.

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

The fight was so close that WBC president José Sulaimán decided to give Laporte a rematch vs Sanchez for the World Boxing Council's world title.

During the Spanish Civil War, Gorostiza played with the Euskadi XI, a team which was put together at the suggestion of José Antonio Aguirre, the president of the Basque Country and a former Athletic player.