MADRID, Spain.- The newspaper Save was one of the many media outlets that were published in Cuba during the 1950s. It did not have the significance, nor the history, nor the popularity of the colossal mass-circulation print media that circulated during the island’s republican era, such as The world and Navy Diaryto name two, when counting Cuban periodical publications up to 1959, it is necessary to mention it because it was part of that period. However, it has been little studied and cited.
Save It took to the streets between 1951 and 1959. Its director was Alberto Salas Amaro, who was a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic and a member of the Unitary Action Party (PAU), founded by Fulgencio Batista. A weekly before his coup d’état in 1952, it later became a daily newspaper that praised the ruler and his family; although it also published news of national and international events similar to those of Other newspapers and magazines of the moment.
Among the recurring information and other materials that he brought out were those referring to Batista’s wife, Marta Fernández, and his children. For example, with the title “Marta’s gesture”, the journalist, writer and diplomat Antonio Iraizoz praised her on March 19, 1957 for working on behalf of the defenseless.
Save disappeared on January 1, 1959. And the following day 22 newspapers like The world They reported that Salas Amaro had been arrested.
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