Spain

Germán Jimanez from Seville in Spain presents two articles about Chernobyl. The first one is from the newspaper “El Pais” of the 29th April 1986. The second one is from the “ABC” of the same day. Germán also mentions the headlines of articles about Chernobyl in the following numbers.

The first information related to Chernobyl’s accident appeared in Spanish newspapers on Tuesday 29th. I have worked on two different newspapers, the most important ones in those times: „El País“ and „ABC“.
The accident was shown on the front page in all of them, but the only sources they had were the short note sent by TASS agency and what it was said in the different investigations started by the surrounding countries after the discovery of the incident. So they could barely say basic information about what really happened.

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