Pedro Sanchez seems destined to continue suffering a collapse in his reputation, now that he is no longer only suspected of engaging in practices of corruption and despotism in the domestic sphere, but also internationally.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has accused Sánchez of having “kidnapped” the Socialist International, “silencing different points of view that distance themselves from the official position of its leadership.”
“The presidency of the SI, in its desire to have total control of everything that is raised and debated by the member parties, prevents dialogue and extinguishes the debate,” the Mexican party has criticized. And he regretted that, under Sánchez’s presidency, The Socialist International has become an “opaque”, “inefficient” and “corrupt” organization.
In light of the list of charges that the PRI accuses of Sánchez’s presidency, it would seem that the president exports to all the organizations in which he holds responsibilities the same dynamics of authoritarian management, fraudulent appointments and irregular financing that are attributed to his mandate in the PSOE.
The PRI has regretted that for the first time the SI is accused of acts of “money laundering”, in reference to the revelations of Victor de Aldamawho accused José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to pressure for the rescue of the Venezuelan company Plus Ultra, which “the Socialist International was going to finance with 10 million euros.”
Aldama affirmed that Sánchez authorized the visit of Delcy Rodriguez to Spain in 2020 in order to obtain the support of Venezuela to preside over the Socialist International.
The censures directed in Spain against the Government for the lukewarmness of its diplomatic position with Venezuelalinked to Zapatero’s opaque mediation with the regime of Madurobegin to spread to the rest of the world.
It is this lukewarmness that the opposition has reproached Jose Manuel Albares in the last Control Session, taking advantage of the fact that this Wednesday the ceremony for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado.
The opposition leader, who did manage to leave Venezuela “in a situation of extreme danger” and arrive in Oslo, finally could not be on time to attend the event and collect her award.
It is worth remembering that The Government has resisted publicly and officially congratulating María Corinawho has been living underground for almost two years persecuted by Maduro.
When the PP has accused the Government of appearing “closer to the dictator than to María Corina”, Albares has hidden behind the fact that “we try to unite Venezuelans, not like you, who try to import the division of Venezuelans to Spain”
But no one is convinced anymore —not even abroad— the alibis with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs tries to clarify its reluctance to clearly describe Venezuela as a dictatorship.
And it becomes inevitable that this unsustainable commitment to dialogue with drug tyranny instead of breaking relations will be linked to the appearance of Chavista personalities like Delcy in the corruption case that affects Sánchez’s entourage.