The Prague Spring in the Spanish Press during the Franco Regime

Choosing as key event the Prague Spring, bounded between January and September 1968, this article presents a comparative analysis of three Spanish newspapers: El Alcazar, Patria, and La Voz de Almeria. The study demonstrates that the strong guidance of the Franco regime was the basis on which the newspapers articulated the reform process in Czechoslovakia and also its tragic outcome. However, despite of the absence of freedom of expression, the study found that in the approach of the newspapers there were differentiating shades that demonstrate the existence of cracks through which new ideas surfaced. Although in many cases they end up suffering the reprisals of the Franco regime, they opened up new horizons for understanding the ambiguity and contradictions in the 1966 Press Law.