Supreme Director

Supreme director (in Spanish director supremo) was a title used to designate certain heads of state in South America

  • The Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (modern Argentina), from 1814 to 1820.
  • The Supreme Director of Chile, from 1814 to 1826, except for the period of Royalist rule from 1814 to 1817

Famous quotes containing the words supreme and/or director:

    “Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question “why” is lacking. What does nihilism mean?—that the supreme values devaluate themselves.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
    —John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)