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:

    “It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.”
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    “He wrote me sad Mother’s Day stories. He’d always kill me in the stories and tell me how bad he felt about it. It was enough to bring a tear to a mother’s eye.”
    —Connie Zastoupil, U.S. mother of Quentin Tarantino, director of film Pulp Fiction. Rolling Stone, p. 76 (December 29, 1994)