La guerra de Ifni y la falsa culpabilización al comunismo internacional por parte del régimen franquista

Abstract

In 1957 Spain and the recently independent state of Morocco were engaged in a war over the territories of Ifni and the Western Sahara. The Francoist regime managed to expel the armed groups of the Liberation Army sent by Rabat; in Ifni, on the contrary, the military presence was reduced to the perimeter of the capital, Sidi Ifni. Spanish propaganda, which was accustomed to making use of the eternal communist enemy chose to represent the Spanish-Moroccan war to public opinion as a Soviet attack, in order not to jeopardise its precarious relationship with the Arab world.