Ideal (newspaper)

Ideal had in its origins in the Catholic and conservative daily La Gaceta del Sur, which had disappeared in 1931. The Catholic hierarchy of Granada decided to launch a new newspaper, counting on the collaboration of journalists such as Ángel Herrera Oria y de Pedro Gómez Aparicio.^[5] The newspaper went to the streets for the first time on May 8, 1932.^[6] It was edited by Editorial Católica.^[7] In these early years of existence was a clearly confessional and conservative newspaper,^[8] and its main journalistic rival was the liberal El Defensor de Granada.^[9] In the context of the 1930s, Ideal was the best manufactured newspaper in the province,^[10] surpassing others published in this period.^[b] During this era, it highlighted the work of Ramón Ruiz Alonso,^[10] the paper's typographer.^[12] During the years of the Second Republic the publication, which reached a circulation of 9000 copies,^[13] according to CEDA.^[14]

On 10 March 1936 a group of right wing supporters ^[c] set fire to the offices of Ideal, whose printing press was destroyed and the premises reduced to the foundations. ^[16] As a consequence, the newspaper did not circulate for some months. In early July, the newspaper returned to Granada, shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

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La Gaceta del Sur

La Gaceta del Sur

La Gaceta del Sur was a Spanish newspaper published in the city of Granada. between 1908 and 1931.

Ángel Herrera Oria

Ángel Herrera Oria

Ángel Herrera Oria was a Spanish journalist and Roman Catholic politician and later a cardinal. He established the Instituto Social León XIII to promote the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church and named it in honor of Pope Paul VI who elevated him to the rank of cardinal in 1965.

El Defensor de Granada

El Defensor de Granada

El Defensor de Granada was a Spanish newspaper with liberal-progressive ideology that was published in Granada between the end of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century. It disappeared after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Ramón Ruiz Alonso

Ramón Ruiz Alonso

Ramón Ruiz Alonso (1903–1982) was a Spanish politician who was a right-wing activist during the Second Spanish Republic and typographer by trade. Married to actress Magdalena Penella, they had four daughters: Terele Pávez (1939–2017), Julia Ruiz Penella (1937–2017), Elisa Montés and Emma Penella (1931–2007). He led the arrest and subsequent murder of the famous Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, on the 19th of August 1936.

Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic, and consisted of various socialist, communist, separatist, anarchist, and republican parties, some of which had opposed the government in the pre-war period. The opposing Nationalists were an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets and was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, and between fascism and communism. According to Claude Bowers, U.S. ambassador to Spain during the war, it was the "dress rehearsal" for World War II. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.

On Sundays, like many other newspapers in the Grupo Vocento, Ideal distributes the supplement XLSemanal. It is a general journal, with reports and collaborations from writers like Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Juan Manuel de Prada.

El diario ha sido dirigido desde su fundación por los siguientes periodistas:^[17]