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Gustavo Morales y Delgado (born 27 March 1959 inToledo, Spain) is a Spanish journalist, periodist and former politician. He is the former deputy director of the newspaperEl Rotativo and former editor of the newspaperYa. He has collaborated as a military analyst withBBC andRussia Today. He won the Carlos V Award for Journalism,^[1] two orders of Merit and Palma de Plata.^[2]

Gustavo Morales grew up betweenToledo, Spain and theMadrid neighbourhood of Carabanchel.^{[citation needed]}

At the age of eighteen, Morales began to travel the world. In his travels he visited especially the Muslim countries, where his interest in the Islamic world was born. He has travelled throughout Europe,Tunisia,Jordan,Egypt,Iraq,Iran,Afghanistan, China,Nepal, India, and Japan. He has collaborated in the translation of different works of scholars from the Islamic world, such asThe Rights of Women in Islam ofAyatollah Motahari,The Islamic Government of Khomeini,The Sociology of Islam of Shariati and the Iranian Constitution of 1979. He has written articles on the subjects and given some lectures thereon. His university education took him to the faculties of History, Sociology and to Information Science, where he specialised. He wrote about the Iranian-Iraqi war, living in Al Amarah (Maysan) and Baghdad in 1982. He was an observer of the cease-fire in Iran. He has written two books on Islamic fundamentalism published in 1988,Imam Khomeini's Iran, and in 1990,Iran in the World. He was editor-in-chief of the magazineMC, directed the newspaperYa and the programThe Quadrilateral on Channel 7 TV. He was also editor-in-chief and deputy editor of the magazineDefensa, founded by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Vicente Talón Ortiz. Before his travels he enlisted in the Legion.^{[citation needed]}

He was assistant director ofEl Rotativo, at CEU San Pablo University, was attached to the director of the magazineWar Heat, and director of the online university newspaperElRotativo.org. He has been a military analyst for the BBC since 2003. He has been a contributor toLegio XXI (Voluntary Reserve magazine),European Dialogue andEl Semanal Digital. He collaborated on the radio programs ofIntercontinental La Gran Esperanza, andPunto de Vista. He was also a sporadic member of the showEl Gato al Agua on the television channel Intereconomía. He is currently directing theOrientando en HispanTV program.^{[citation needed]}

He has twice been sent to theRepublic of Kazakhstan.

At the age of fourteen, he entered the illegal Front of Student Unionists – one of the groups that gave rise to theFE de las JONS (Authentic) – being responsible for Teaching Media in Madrid. He was local chief of the Junta de Carabanchel, Milicias squadron chief and youth secretary. He attended the World Congress of Students in Cuba, in a blue shirt in 1978. He held the position of national head of FE de las JONS from 1995 to October 1997, when he resigned by offering a table for the unit at a public event in the Plaza de Olavide.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997 he founded the José Antonio Primo de Rivera Foundation. In 1999, together with Ángel Carrera Zabaleta and Luis Manuel Rodríguez Jamet, he founded the Ramiro Ledesma Ramos Foundation, of which he was president. The last century abandoned political party militancy.^{[citation needed]}

• Morales, Gustavo (1988).El Irán del imam Jomeini. Madrid: Biblioteca universitaria.ISBN 84-86568-18-8.
• Morales, Gustavo (1990).Irán en el mundo: apuntes para una historia internacional del estado iraní. Madrid: Biblioteca universitaria.ISBN 84-86568-33-1.
• Morales, Gustavo (1996).De la protesta a la propuesta. La alternativa falangista. Madrid: Ediciones barbarroja.ISBN 978-84-87446-15-3.
• Morales, Gustavo y otros (2002).Revisión de la guerra civil española. Madrid: Editorial Actas.ISBN 84-9739-000-8.
• Velarde, Juan (Coord.) (2004).José Antonio y la Economía. Madrid: Grafite.ISBN 84-96281-10-8.
• Morales, Gustavo (2004).Fascismo en España: Claves del desarrollo nacionalsindicalista en la primera mitad del siglo XX. Oviedo: El Catoblepas. ISSN 1579-3974.
• Morales, Gustavo (2007).Falangistas contra el Caudillo. Madrid: Sepha.ISBN 978-84-96764-16-3.
• Morales, Gustavo y Togores, Luis (2008).La División Azul. Las fotografías de una historia. Madrid: La esfera de los libros.ISBN 978-84-9734-776-1.
• Morales, Gustavoet al. (Universidad San Pablo-CEU) (2008).La República y la guerra civil setenta años después. Madrid: Editorial Actas.ISBN 978-84-9739-069-9.
• Morales, Gustavo y otros (2009).Los derechos humanos sesenta años después. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid.ISBN 978-84-8448-519-3.
• Morales, Gustavo (2009).Etiopía frente an Eritrea, guerra en el cuerno de África. Revista Ejército de Tierra Español. ISSN 1696-7178.
• Morales, Gustavo y Togores, Luis (2010).Falangistas. Madrid: La esfera de los libros.ISBN 978-84-9321-034-2.
• Morales, Gustavo, José J. Esparza y otros (2011).El libro negro de la izquierda española. Barcelona: Chronica.ISBN 978-84-15122-43-2.
• Morales, Gustavo and others (2014).Un grito en el silencio: homenaje de Mercedes Fórmica. Madrid: Ediciones Barbarroja.ISBN 978-84-87446-91-7.
• Morales, Gustavo (2014).Manual para rebeldes. Tarragona: Fides.ISBN 84-943269-0-2.
• Morales, Gustavo (2016). Forward toGerardo Salvador Merino. Tarragona: Fides.ISBN 978-84-944917-7-1.
• Morales, Gustavo (2017). Forward toEl aliado persa. Segovia: Mandala.ISBN 978-84-16765-70-6.

• War Heat InternationalArchived 5 December 2017 at theWayback Machine, revista de ejércitos de tierra, mar y aire, de la que Gustavo Morales fue director adjunto.
• Entrevista en Elmundo.es, el 26 de septiembre de 1999.
• Primer capítulo^{[permanent dead link]} del libroFalangistas contra el caudillo
• Primeras páginasArchived 16 September 2011 at theWayback Machine del libroLa División azul, fotografías de una historia
• Gustavo Morales con Juan Antonio Cebrián, José Luis Orella, Gonzalo Millán del Pozo, Luis Eugenio Togores yJosé Luis Rodríguez Jiménez, en el programa Tiempo de Tertulia.
• Artículo de El Semanal Digital
• Periódico universitario online El Rotativo, del que es director
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