<i>El Mentirón</i> (1868-69). Fueros y republicanismo federal>

Rubio Pobes, Coro

Publication year:

2002

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-907-X

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Summary

Spring 1868 marked the beginning of the publication of El Mentirón, in Vitoria. El Mentirón was a weekly satirical, literary and illustrated magazine, whose main producer, director, editor and drawing artist was the republican from Alava Ricardo Becerro de Bengoa, a man of great relevancy in the Basquist cultural world. Although it qualified itself as a purely literary newspaper, El Mentirón soon opted for contending in the convulsed political arena of that era and it advocated a federal republic, a political commitment that identified it with the defense of the special jurisdictions (Fueros) and Basquism.