Alejandro Armesto


Alejandro Armesto is a Spanish journalist and business executive who was president of the EFE news agency from 1969 to 1976. Biographize the code

Before taking the helm of the Spanish press agency in 1969, Alejandro Armesto was the fifteenth and last director of the Francoist newspaper Madrid Arriba, created in March 1935 by José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903-1936), founder of the Spanish Falange, banned in March 1936 and reappeared from March 1939.

Under his direction EFE has created its first news service in English and French. In 1972, however, he ran up against the British news agency Reuters and the major private American media, which created the Panama-based News Agency for Central America (PAC). change the code

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