Triunfo, the icon of the anti-Franco press

The centenary of the birth of the republican journalist and writer Eduardo Haro Tecglen (Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, 1924-Madrid, 2005), allows us to remember the emblematic weekly newspaper Triunfo, as it was one of the most recognized pillars of the defunct anti-Franco magazine. 42 years ago, 36 after his birth on February 2, 1946 and the democracy for which he fought so much had already been established, in July 1982 the last issue of Triunfo hit newsstands. Why did a means of communication disappear for which the worn-out adjective of emblematic of an era will never be better applied? Among other reasons, perhaps it can be summarized in that word: era: Triumph disappeared with an era, his, which also disappeared.

One of the peculiarities of the Transition from Franco’s dictatorship to the constitutional and democratic monarchy of Juan Carlos I, perhaps the most cruel, was his Saturnian behavior: Triunfo was just one of his many children that he devoured. Its voracity engulfed practically the only party that fought the Franco regime, the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), for many years the party par excellence, which in the 60s created “associations as important as the Workers’ Commissions, the Assembly of Catalonia, the Unesco friends clubs, the Democratic Union of Students, numerous professional associations and neighborhood circles, etc.