Rafa Latorre: "La viscosa investigación de las cloacas llega ya hasta los pies de Sánchez"

The host of La Brújula discusses in his monologue the indictment of Juanma Serrano in the PSOE's dirty tricks case, his relationship with Leire Díez, and also recounts Donald Trump's disconcerting change of heart regarding Spain after the NATO summit. #NATO #Spain #PSOE https://www.ondacero.es/programas/la-... The sticky contents of the dirty tricks investigation have now reached the very feet of Pedro Sánchez. It was clear that Leire Díez couldn't be just any ordinary party member when she had access to such sensitive areas of the State as the Attorney General's Office and the Directorate General of the Civil Guard. But above all, because she has held some of the most coveted positions in the catalog of political appointments. Leire Díez may seem eccentric, crude, unprepared, and rude, but she must have had something going for her when she became Director of Philately and Institutional Relations at Correos (the Spanish postal service). She must have had something. We're still trying to figure out what it was. The person who appointed her was Pedro Sánchez's closest confidant until the day he became president. Juanma Serrano accompanied Sánchez right up to the Moncloa Palace, left him there, and Sánchez rewarded him with the presidency of Correos. Correos is the largest public company in Spain. It therefore belongs to the SEPI (State Holding Company for Industrial Participations) public holding. Juanma Serrano has just been implicated by the UCO (Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard) in the so-called Leire case, which is more accurately described as the PSOE's (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) dirty tricks scandal. A new document sent to the National Court implicates her both in operations aimed at obtaining bribes from SEPI (the Spanish State Holding Company) and in those aimed at defusing criminal cases that were damaging the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and the Prime Minister. Thus, the investigation that began by following the activities of a party member labeled as fanciful and an outsider has now reached Pedro Sánchez's inner circle, first implicating Santos Cerdán, and now Juanma Serrano. Could Pedro Sánchez have been unaware of this dirty tricks operation and its activities? It seems unlikely; rather, what the Civil Guard's investigation indicates is that Leire Díaz was placed in generously paid positions in public companies precisely as a way to reward her dirty work. Because she's not an expert in philately. We don't see her delving into the archives of the Royal Philatelic Society. However, we don't need to imagine her demanding the head of the UCO (Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard) because we've already heard her doing so. When we told you that the PSOE's dirty tricks case could be the most compromising for Pedro Sánchez, and given how the investigation is inexorably getting closer to him. Trump's unexpected change of opinion about Spain So radical that no one understands what motivated it, and the explanations being offered are even more disconcerting. Coming from Trump, it seemed like a coherent statement. What has been disconcerting is what he said on the plane back home. What did the Spanish government promise Donald Trump to make him change his view of our country so drastically? Nobody knows, because the government maintains there has been no change in position and, through El País, has offered a completely implausible explanation. I read to you: "What happened is that Trump heard Pedro Sánchez's explanations live at the NATO plenary session, where he detailed Spain's efforts to reach 2% of its military spending and its commitment to reaching 2.1%, as well as the words of other leaders like Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who thanked Spain for its commitment to defense with Patriot missile batteries." "Sánchez," these sources explain, "in the three minutes that leaders are usually given a maximum of to speak before Trump—to prevent him from getting bored and tuning out—detailed Spain's commitments. He explained, as he did later in the press conference, that during his term there has been a significant increase in defense spending and that he has met the promised 2%. He also announced that Spain will join a NATO mission in Finland to protect the Arctic, and that calmed the US leader." " Let's remember that he demands it, he doesn't ask, he demands it. Donald Trump is calling for a 5% investment, and in three minutes Sánchez managed to convince him that 2.1% is enough? It's an interesting matter. It's certainly much more believable that Trump is starting to go crazy—to use the clinical term he used to describe the ayatollahs—than all this. Today, Defense Minister Margarita Robles received the US ambassador, while Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares denies that there has been any change in the Spanish position. ...