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This work presents a Spanish-language dataset of 18,236 synthetic news descriptions generated from real journalistic headlines using a fully reproducible, open-source pipeline. The methodology used to produce the dataset includes both a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach, which incorporates contextual information from recent news descriptions, and a NO-RAG approach, which relies solely on the headline. Texts were generated with the instruction-tuned Mistral 7B Instruct model, systematically varying temperature to explore the effect of generation parameters. The dataset includes detailed metadata linking each synthetic description to its source headline, generation settings, and, when applicable, retrieved contextual content. 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