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SP
Former editors
  • Rodrigo Royo (1941–1967)
  • Luis Ángel de la Viuda (1967–1968)
Categories
  • News magazine
  • Political magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founded1957
First issue12 May 1957
Final issue1972
CountrySpain
Based in
  • Madrid
  • Barcelona
LanguageSpanish

SP was an illustrated news and political magazine which was published in Spain from 1957 to 1972. The title was an abbreviation of the phrase Su Periódico (Spanish: Your Periodical).[1] It is known for its support for Francoist rule.

History and profile

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SP was launched in 1957 by a group of Spanish journalists, including Rodrigo Royo[2] and Jaime Menéndez.[3] Its first issue appeared on 12 May that year.[4] The magazine came out weekly,[3] and its editor-in-chief and director was Rodrigo Royo.[5] In September 1967 Luis Ángel de la Viuda replaced Royo as the editor-in-chief of SP and held the post until November 1968.[2] The headquarters of the magazine was in Madrid, but it also had publishing offices in Barcelona.[6] Due to its popularity a sister publication, Daily SP, was started in 1967 which ceased publication in 1969 due to lower popularity.[2] SP sold 21,000 copies a week in the years 1966, 1967 and 1969.[2] Its 1968 circulation was 24,000 copies.[2]

In 1961 during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi official who escaped to Argentine where he was captured, SP published an article in which the holocaust was denied.[7] The article claimed that not Nazis but the Russians established the concentration camps for Jews in Germany.[7] The editor-in-chief, Rodrigo Royo, also published an editorial denying the existence of the gas chambers stating that these were just the army laboratories established to test the gas masks of the soldiers.[7]

In January 1964 SP published a controversial article about the assassination of the American President John F. Kennedy arguing that the murderers were the Dallas police.[6] A CIA document created upon this article on 14 May 1964 stated that the magazine was a Falange supporter and that it might have links with the Italian far right publication Secolo XX.[6] In the same document it was also speculated that this article was part of the Franco government's attempts to rebuild diplomatic relations with Mexico.[6]

SP folded in 1972.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Rodrigo Royo Masia (Revista SP)". La Hemeroteca del Buitre (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Miguel Ángel Ruiz Carnicer (2019). "Late Spanish Fascists in a Changing World: Latin American Communists and East European Reformism, 1956–1975". Contemporary European History. 28 (3): 360, 364. doi:10.1017/S0960777319500079. S2CID 202325522.
  3. ^ a b "Jaime Menéndez 'El Chato', periodista republicano". El Mercurio Digital (in Spanish). 29 November 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Nace la Revista SP fundada por Rodrigo Royo Masía". La Hemeroteca del Buitre (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Rodrigo Royo" (in Spanish). Lecturalia. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d "JFK Assassination Document dated 14 May 1964" (PDF). CIA. 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  7. ^ a b c International Development and Security: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1961. p. 1004.
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