Abstract

This paper analyzes the media coverage that the Spanish weekly press completed of one of the key moments of late Francoism: the Green March and the Spanish withdrawal from Western Sahara. This task will be carried out through a qualitative content analysis of the political and satirical press of the time. This paper's goal is to analyze the opinion and informative preferences of the weekly magazines regarding the Sahara's question, as well as the informative difficulties that this process provoked among the Spanish weekly press.