| Ministerio de Información y Turismo | |
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| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 20 July 1951 |
| Dissolved | 5 July 1977 |
| Superseding agency | |
| Type | Ministry |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Spain |
TheMinistry of Information and Tourism (Spanish:Ministerio de Información y Turismo) was aministerial department of theGovernment of Spain created in 1951 during thedictatorship of Francisco Franco to control information and the censorship of press and radio.[1][2] The ministry also assumed the management of Tourism, an important industry at that time when it had an important flowering. Inhistoriography, some authors consider it as a simpleMinistry of Propaganda.[3]
The need to inform public opinion of the government's action had its beginnings in 1918 with the creation of theMinistry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts that had an Information Office. With thedictatorship of Primo de Rivera, two successive organizations were created; first the Bureau for Information and Press Censorship, during the Military Directory (1923), and the next one in the Civil Directory (1925) with the Cabinet for Information and Press Censorship. During theSecond Republic, a Press Section was created in the General Secretariat of thePresident of the Republic (1932) and already during theCivil War, prime ministerLargo Caballero created the Ministry of Propaganda that had an ephemeral life.
The Department of Information and Tourism was created by a Decree-Law of 19 July 1951.[4] The ministry assumed the competences over media and entertainment (press,cinematography andtheater andbroadcasting) that until then were attributed to the Undersecretariat of Popular Education, whose head was Manuel Arburúa de la Miyar, while those of tourism had been attributed to the Directorate-General for Tourism, whose director-general had been, since its creation in 1938 and for fifteen years,Luis Bolín and that until then depended on theMinistry of Home Affairs.[5] Another of the bodies that came to depend on the ministry was the National Delegation of Press, Propaganda and Radio,[6] a body that was in charge of the media controlled by theFalange (such as theMovement Press Group or the Network of Broadcasters of the Movement).
The ministry was abolished during theSpanish transition to democracy, assuming theOffice of the Spokesperson the powers relating to information, theMinistry of Culture those about cultural affairs and theMinistry of Trade those of tourism. The tourism powers are currently managed by theMinistry of Industry and Tourism.[7]
| Image | Name | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gabriel Arias-Salgado | 18 July 1951 | 10 July 1962 |
%2c_Bestanddeelnr_914-8477_(cropped).jpg) | Manuel Fraga Iribarne | 10 July 1962 | 29 October 1969 |
| Alfredo Sánchez Bella | 29 October 1969 | 11 June 1973 |
| Fernando de Liñán y Zofio | 11 June 1973 | 3 January 1974 |
_Adolfo_Su%25C3%25A1rez_junto_a_P%25C3%25ADo_Cabanillas%2c_ministro_de_Cultura%2c_en_una_tasca_de_Orense_durante_la_campa%25C3%25B1a_de_UCD_en_las_elecciones_generales_de_1_de_marzo_de_1979_(cropped).jpeg) | Pío Cabanillas Gallas | 3 January 1974 | 24 October 1974 |
| León Herrera Esteban | 29 October 1974 | 12 December 1975 |
| Adolfo Martín-Gamero y González-Posada | 12 December 1975 | 5 July 1976 |
| Andrés Reguera Guajardo | 5 July 1976 | 4 July 1977 |
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