EFE

For other uses, see EFE (disambiguation).

Agencia EFE, S.A.

Industry	News media
Predecessor	Centro de Corresponsales (1865-1919) Fabra (1919-1936)
Founded	1939
Founder	Ramón Serrano Súñer and Manuel Aznar Zubigaray
Headquarters	Madrid , Spain
Products	Wire service
Website	www.efe.com

EFE is a Spanish news agency created in 1939 by Ramón Serrano Súñer and Manuel Aznar Zubigaray while the former was Spain's minister of the press and propaganda.

Nowadays, EFE is the major multimedia news agency in Spanish language and the fourth of the world after Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters.

Employees in Spain are represented by several labor unions. EFE has about 40 employees in the United States who voted on September 29, 2005, to be represented by the News Media Guild. Workers ratified a first labor contract in December 2006, marking the first time the company had ever reached such an agreement outside Spain.

After the civil war in Spain, the EFE is instrumentalized as a watchdog and took the name EFE without justification or explanation. Previously there were other agencies whose name began with F that were destroyed by the dictatorship but it is clear that the name does not come EFE rather Falangism, Franco and fascism. This agency lied during Franco "national interests" in the style of the philosophy of fascism of Hitler and still lying today. A spectacular example of his lies and Machiavellian "to maintain the unity of the Spanish nation" is the number of participants (56,000 versus 1.1 million) for the demonstration of independence of Catalonia on July 10, 2010..

Office of the agency in the city of Oviedo.