La Correspondencia Militar was founded in 1877 by Commander Emilio Prieto Villarreal. It was published Monday through Saturday, with an illustrated Sunday supplement named
Militares y Paisanos (
Military and Countrymen). It had an initial circulation of 4,000. Its ideology was
hawkish toward all
colonial wars of the late 19th century, in addition to its political conservatism and defense of the Army's corporatist interests. In particular it conducted a campaign in defense of the
Law of Jurisdictions in 1909. By 1913 it had a circulation of 15,950. In 1917 it became the
de facto mouthpiece for the . Its previous director, Commander Julio Amado, gave way to Evaristo Romero at the head of the publication, although Amado continued to guide its ideology. In the 1920s the paper's circulation dropped considerably. At the suggestion of the regime of
Alfonso XIII and the dictator
Miguel Primo de Rivera, the Mallorcan entrepreneur
Juan March contributed 100,000
pesetas to shore up the newspaper's finances. However, seeing that it was a ruinous business, March put an end to his assistance in November 1926. It was one of the few publications of its type that survived the establishment of the
Second Republic. By 1932, it was simply titled
La Correspondencia. Its director in the Republican period was Lieutenant Colonel . Its articles frequently attacked the Republic, which earned it several suspensions. It ceased publication in 1932. ==References==