Information and counter-information in Franco’s regime (1951-1973): the Ministry of Information is as important as the War Ministry

Authors

  • Javier Muñoz Soro

Keywords:

Franco regime, information, counter-Information, propaganda, press

Abstract

During the years of the Franco dictatorship, information policy was one of the areas most sensitive to changing international circumstances, to conflicts within the regime and its eventual delegitimization by increasingly broad sectors of Spanish society and world public opinion. This provides an advantageous viewpoint from which to study the Franco regime from a constructivist perspective. The article draws on new documentation to discuss the tensions that arose with the regime’s efforts to modernize, aimed as it was at modelling public opinion within the system and using counter-information strategies as a means to fight against the opposition.

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