1. INFLUENCIA DEL PODER POLÍTICO EN LA LIBERTAD DE PRENSA: LA GUERRA DE CUBA (1895-1898).
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LÓPEZ DE RAMÓN, MARÍA
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FREEDOM of the press , *MASS media censorship , *SPANISH-American War, 1898 , *CONSTITUTIONAL law , *CONSTITUTIONAL history , *FREEDOM of speech ,CUBAN Revolution, 1895-1989 - Abstract
At the end of the 19th century, Spain had an appropriate context to develop an effective freedom of the press, which had been recognised in the Spanish Constitution of 1876 and «The 1883 Press Police Act». Nevertheless, during the Spanish-American War (1895-1898), the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party, peacefully rotating in the Government during the «Bourbon Restoration», applied restrictive measures against the Spanish freedom of speech. According to their own ideology, both parties implemented legal actions (suspension of constitutional guarantees or state of war), and others indirect media restrictions (telegraph censorship, instructions to publish in the newspapers or imprisonment of journalists), to establish a system of censorship during the War, which rescinded the Spanish printing legislation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016