Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Jul 2011)
La guerra de las ondas. La radio portuguesa y la Guerra Civile española
Abstract
This article analyses diverse appearances related with the intervention of the Portuguese radio in the Spanish civil war from the study of diverse documentary materials that offer interesting data for the knowledge of this individual subject of the Spanish conflict. Based in newspapers library sources and of the Spanish and Portuguese archives, the investigation detains in the paper played by the broadcasting station whose propaganda resulted very notable for the victory of the franquist edict: the Rádio Club Português (RCP), founded and directed by the official of the Portuguese army Jorge Botelho Moniz, that from the explosion of the war initiated an intense campaign of communication against the Second Spanish Republic and in favour of the franquist coup d’état.