El secuestro del Santa María en la prensa del régimen franquista

Abstract

In January, 1961 there took place the kidnapping of the Portuguese transatlantic Santa Maria, executed by a group of 24 persons organized under the DRIL (Revolutionary Iberian Directory of Liberation). Their intention was to denounce before the world the Iberian dictatorships of Franco and Salazar. Almost the whole world press gathered this event in their pages. In the francoist Spain, newspaper of unquestionable adhesion to the regime as ABC, Ya and Arriba emphasized this fact as an act of piracy and terrorism. The manipulation and the propaganda in the Spanish diaries concealed the society from the real characteristics of the event, as well as the motives, consequences and all the details of the same one.