I don’t know who, diving into the dictionary, recovered the word mud and its derivatives these months ago. I personally don’t like it, but since it has been used as a way of understanding when we talk aggressively about political activity, I can’t resist using it. Are … the relations between the democratic parties and lately even the international relations that had been maintained in an exemplary manner since the end of the Dictatorship were muddied. After many years of isolation and bans on traveling around the world, we had become one of the countries that maintained exemplary relations, outside of governments and maintaining constructive neutrality in conflicts.
But this situation began to change when the irresponsibility of then-president Rodríguez Zapatero led to an insult to the flag of the United States that became a scandal and tarnished relations with the leading world power. When little by little the close friendships established with some Sandinista governments in Latin America were restored, such as the dictatorship of a repressor of freedoms and manipulator of elections like the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro, Spanish diplomacy began to create a division between conservative systems and regimes imbued with revolutionary inspiration. This propensity to distinguish between good and bad became more frequent with the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the influence of his far-left partners.
While the president was losing influence in the EU and in the conflict in the Gaza Strip, Spain sided in favor of Hamas and the Iranian-sponsored guerrillas against Israel — which even temporarily recalled its ambassador in Madrid — before the challenge of the Yemeni Houthis to attack traffic in the Red Sea, Spain refused to send military aid to defend it. Meanwhile, Spain handed over, without taking into account the institutions or the rest of the International Community, the sovereignty of the Sahara to Morocco, creating a serious conflict with neighboring Algeria, which has not broken relations, but two years later it still rejected a visit from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. While the president reflects on the global situation, the diplomatic impasse explodes with Argentina, a country that has been a lifelong friend.
Many Spaniards do not like the new president of Buenos Aires, Javier Milei, and from what we can deduce, Sánchez less so – in the elections he had interfered in favor of the defeated Peronist candidate – and did not have the usual diplomatic gesture of congratulating the winner. Mileni is a controversial character with debatable ideas, but he was elected president by the Argentines – certainly, with a majority that Sánchez had not achieved. Oscar Puente, the loudmouth minister who acts as a provocateur for the Government, allowed himself to be accused without any evidence of “ingestion of substances”, opening a conflict that muddies relations between two brother countries and managing to unite the press in his defense, defending and criticizing Spain for its interference and demanding that the provocateur minister be dismissed as a grievance.
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