ABSTRACT
During the 1930s, Omega and El hombre libre played an important role in disseminating anti-Communist and anti-Semitic propaganda from Germany and Spain, and advancing the notion that Communism and Judaism were one and the same. The two newspapers tried to convince their readers that “Judeo-Communist” agents were operating within the Cardenista administration in an effort to exert political and financial control over the country. Omega and El hombre libre worked hard to defeat Cárdenas in 1934. But they also challenged some candidacies of the anti-Callista opposition including General Antonio I. During 1934 and later, both El hombre libre and Omega stepped up their criticism of Cardenista land reform plans as Socialist-motivated. El hombre libre spoke out against what it viewed as systematic government prejudice against free religious practise. With respect to agriculture, the newspaper insisted that the government’s reform objectives would lead to a continuance of the “misery and impoverishment of rural population”.
