Franco, Salazar y los propagandistas de la libertad (1936-1939)

Alberto Pena Rodríguez

doi:10.4185/rlcs-1998-2188

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Alberto Pena Rodríguez Vigo University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/rlcs-1998-2188

Abstract

The article on "Franco, Salazar and the propagandists of freedom" studies the role played by Portuguese correspondents during the Spanish Civil War. This aspect, which remains totally unpublished in historiography, reveals important data on the role played by Portugal in the Spanish fratricidal conflict. In fact, Portugal was the country that sent the most informers to Spain between 1936 and 1939. Around thirty journalists travelled to our country with a clear propagandistic intention in favour of Franco's side, unconditionally supported from the very beginning by the Portuguese dictator Oliveira Salazar. Journalists such as Félix Correia, Leopoldo Nunes and Artur Portela, among others, published articles and reports in the Portuguese press in the international press that offered readers a completely benevolent view of the uprising, while denigrating those who declared themselves supporters of the Second Spanish Republic.

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Author Biography

Alberto Pena Rodríguez, Vigo University

PhD in Information Sciences (with European Mention) from the Complutense University of Madrid, PhD in History (with Extraordinary Prize) from the UNED and Professor of History of Propaganda at the University of Vigo since 1999, where he has been Dean (two terms), Vice-Dean and Secretary of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication.

Among other universities, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of California Berkeley, as well as a full professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2013) and the Michael Teague Visiting Professor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University (2017). His recent works include Salazar and Franco. La alianza del fascismo ibérico contra la España democrática: diplomacia, prensa y propaganda (Trea, 2017) and Actualidad sobre el sueño americano. A history of the Portuguese press in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019). As a journalist, he worked for TVE, Radio Galega, El Correo Gallego and Diario 16 de Galicia.