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This paper analizes the transformation of the press, particularly the evolution of its structure and discourse, during the Spanish War (1936-1939). It studies in particular the example of the anti-fascist press in Biscay, to show the profound changes that the 1936 putsch caused (change of personnel, bankruptcy, propaganda, censorship). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Transition, a part of the emerging press, in this case the comic weeklies El Papus (1977) and El Jueves (1973-1987), used humor as an informative and innovative weapon to promote, with remarkable social repercussion, a sarcastic view of Spanish social and political drift. This paper pretends to analyze what was the concrete editorial position of both publications in front of the essential political events of the Transition during these years and the constituent legislation itself (June 1977- December 1978). The text reviews the political position and analyzes how both magazines faced the emerging party system, in addition to consider whether they came to constitute the first manifestation of dissidence, of what is known as political "disenchantment", an early indication of discrediting the new political system which has occupied little attention in studies of that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Christian Century, an American Protestant magazine of religious news, paid detailed attention to the situation of the Spanish Protestant minority under the denominationally Catholic Franco's dictatorship. The lack of religious freedom was one of the most relevant and troublesome aspects of the bilateral relation between Spain and the United States in the Cold War historical framework. In this paper the time immediately before the signature of the agreements is considered. It was a historical moment in which the Franco regime was getting rid step by step of its ostracism, but it was not yet integrated in the U.S.-led global strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]