Ali Yata (Napoleon's World)

Ali Yata (1920 - 1997) was the Chairman of the Communist Party of Spain and General Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Spain from 1962 until he was ousted by Julio del Vayo in 1969 at the 60th Party Conference in Valencia. He is, to date, the only head of government of Spain to be of Arab descent or to be from the African provinces.