 Due to these conservative stances, "El Pueblo Vasco" was shut down by the Spanish Republic government on 17 July 1936, just before the Spanish Civil War.It was almost a year later, on 6 July 1937, when the paper published again, after the fall of Bilbao; it was joined on newsstands by "El Correo Español", the official newspaper of the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS, the Spanish fascist party, using the seized presses of the Basque nationalist daily "Euzkadi".By order of caudillo Francisco Franco's government on 13 April 1938, the two papers combined as "El Correo Español-El Pueblo Vasco", owned by El Pueblo Vasco S.A. but controlled by the Falange.