Open AccessTHE DENUNCIATION OF CORRUPTION IN FRANCHISM. “EL CASO MATESA” IN THE JOURNAL CUADERNOS PARA EL DIÁLOGO
Author(s) -
María de la Paz Pando Ballesteros
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
humanities and rights global network journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2675-3707
pISSN - 2675-1038
DOI - 10.24861/2675-1038.v2i1.30
Subject(s) - denunciation , politics , language change , dictatorship , political science , democracy , opposition (politics) , power (physics) , abuse of power , law , nepotism , pluralism (philosophy) , political economy , sociology , literature , art , physics , quantum mechanics , philosophy , epistemology
In view of the worsening experienced by Spain, in recent years, both globally and in Europe , in relation to levels of corruption, in this paper we try to dismantle the idea, still present in some sectors of society, that corruption is an exclusive phenomenon of democratic systems and political pluralism, highlighting the network of corruption that allowed the Franco dictatorship, during which said blight became a widespread social practice, a structural element protected by power and protected by the lack of freedom of expression and communication. We will dwell especially on the fraud carried out by the company MATESA, as well as on the political background that was implicit and that led to a strong government crisis, analyzing it from an original perspective. We will study both the dimensions of fraud, and the media scandal it provoked, as well as the political crisis that resulted from the perspective of the non-collaborationist Christian Democrats, who used this issue to record, through the pages of the Journal Cuadernos for the Dialogue, of the corruption in which the System was based, of the power struggles that confronted the different families of the Regime at the height of 1969, of their position in this respect, as well as of their proposals and alternatives.