''El Periódico Extremadura'' (originally ''Extremadura'') is a Spanish-language daily newspaper. Founded in 1923, it is published in Cáceres, Spain. It is part of the Grupo Zeta. It is along ''Hoy'' one of the two major newspapers in the autonomous community of

Extremadura Extremadura (; ext, Estremaúra; pt, Estremadura; Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is an autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, ...

History

It was founded on 1 April 1923 under the auspice of

Pedro Segura Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for '' Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meani ...

, bishop of Coria. During the Second Republic, the editorial policy oscillated between the Catholic integrism and the extreme right, although it occasionally endorsed the right-wing

CEDA The Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas (, CEDA), was a Spanish political party in the Second Spanish Republic. A Catholic conservative force, it was the political heir to Ángel Herrera Oria's Acción Popular and defined itself in ...

as the "lesser evil". Initially published as evening newspaper, it had a modest circulation. One of its writers (Juan Milán Cebrián) broke the news about the proclamation of

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 19 ...

as "Caudillo" in 1936, following the seizure of Cáceres by the rebel faction in the midst of the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlism, Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebeli ...

. The newspaper was edited by Tomás Murillo Iglesias (1923–1927), Antonio Reyes Huertas (1927–1937) and Rafael Bittini y López de Guijarro (1937–1939). During most of the

Francoist dictatorship Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spani ...

it was edited by

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(1939–1972). It was purchased by the Grupo Zeta in 1988, and it was renamed as ''El Periódico Extremadura''.

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