Open Access«Tudo pela nação, nada contra a nação». Salazar, la creación del secretariado de propaganda nacional y la censura
Author(s) -
Alberto Peña Rodríguez
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
hispania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.189
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1988-8368
pISSN - 0018-2141
DOI - 10.3989/hispania.2012.v72.i240.368
Subject(s) - portuguese , dictatorship , censorship , humanities , politics , political science , order (exchange) , art , philosophy , law , linguistics , business , finance , democracy
The Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional (SPN) of the Portuguese dictatorship is essential in order to understand how the Salazarist Estado Novo in Portugal was conceived and consolidated. Its role as an instrument of propaganda used to spread the regime’s political ideas, based on the socalled «politics of spirit», had an extraordinary influence on the control of the public opinion and the Portuguese media, which suffered an ironclad censorship that had a very negative effect on freedom of speech and the press. In this article we approach the main elements of the strategy, its structure and the SPN organization in the 30’s, based on several documental sources that provide insightful data on the Portuguese fascist regime