Faes, the foundation of former Prime Minister José María Aznar, harshly criticized this Tuesday, through a statement, the progressive summit last weekend in Barcelona, which brought together, among others, international leaders of the left such as the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, and the Colombian president Gustavo Petro. With the same language that the Argentine president, the ultra Javier Milei, usually uses, the text despises the meeting as a “performance left-handed” designed by “el Señorito” (in reference to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez) to shelter “accomplices of a narco-dictatorship.”
The statement is titled: “Only Maduro was missing,” the former Venezuelan president captured last January by the United States, and states: “Sánchez is not even worthy of a banana host. Isn’t it unforgivable to have wasted the possibility of a videoconference of his from the dungeons of Trumpism? What a great missed opportunity!” The Government does not support the former Venezuelan president. In 2019, Sánchez recognized the opposition Juan Guaidó as “president in charge” of the country; In 2024, he granted political asylum to Edmundo González, who publicly thanked the Executive for his efforts to be transferred to Spain, and has recently granted Spanish nationality to another Venezuelan opponent, Leopoldo López, imprisoned for three years by the Maduro regime. Faes’ text does not allude to the matter, but after capturing the former president of Venezuela, Trump left his number two, Delcy Rodríguez.
In response to the progressive summit organized by Sánchez, whom Aznar’s foundation accuses of confusing “party, State and Government”, the statement praises “the crowd” that accompanied “a genuine peace activist” last Sunday in Madrid, alluding to María Corina Machado. The Venezuelan opponent recently presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize along with a message of gratitude for “the promotion of peace through strength.” Faes, who avoids criticizing the US president for having ignored Machado after Maduro’s capture, affirms that freedoms in Venezuela have been “usurped with the complicity of those mobilized by Sánchez” at the summit last weekend and calls the criticism of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares – who is referred to as “the butler” – of Machado for having met with the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez, as “comical”. Feijóo; that of Vox, Santiago Abascal, and the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, but not with the president of the Government of Spain.
