 Franco is referred to as "Generalísimo" or "Head of State", who was an "intelligent and moderate", a "brave and Catholic" man and who established an "authoritarian but not totalitarian" regime.Franco chaired the Francisco Franco National Foundation, which is under criticism for its revisionist opinions such as calling the Spanish coup of July 1936 an "armed referendum".The Spanish historian Borja de Riquer called that a euphemism with reference to an era in which approximately 140,000 Spaniards were executed in a reign of terror by the Falange, the Guardia Civil and other Nationalist organisations.