In its initial stage the newspaper had the financing and valuable support of José Genaro Villanova, a rich businessman and politician from Granada.
[2] This company already owned other leading national newspapers such as El Imparcial and Heraldo de Madrid.
In the last twelve years of its existence El Defensor de Granada was headed by the eminent writer and journalist Constantino Ruiz Carnero.
[6] After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, during the 1930s El Defensor de Granada showed itself clearly sympathetic to the new regime.
[8] At the start of the Spanish Civil War, on July 20, 1936, the Defender of Granada was closed by the military coup leaders and its facilities were raided.