The Spanish foreign minister met for an hour and a half last month with the Cuban foreign minister and agreed to provide humanitarian aid from the International Cooperation Agency to the island, “through the United Nations system, in the form of food and essential health supplies,” according to a press release.

A group of Cuban exiles, including activist Lucio Enríquez Nodarse, criticized the Spanish Foreign Minister for sitting down to “dialogue with the Cuban dictatorship” and argued that such meetings “produce nothing that benefits the Cuban people.”

What is interesting in the Spanish case, governed by the Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), is that it not only seems to sympathize with foreign authoritarianism but also appears to want to import it.

Attacks against independent journalists in the European country are becoming increasingly evident. In the summer of 2025, Vito Quiles, a young reporter for EDATV, attempted to interview Silvia Intxaurrondo, a presenter for the state-run Spanish Radio and Television (RTVE), regarding her defense of Sánchez and his family against corruption allegations.

However, Quiles was physically assaulted by security personnel and then by members of a leftist mob before he could even leave the area and enter the streets of Madrid. Footage captured by his cameraman shows several people shouting “fascist” at him, gesturing violently, and snatching his microphone.

The images were reminiscent of Castro’s “acts of repudiation” against dissidents in totalitarian Cuba.

It is worth noting that none of these intimidating actions against press freedom in Spain have been condemned by the government. This is the same government that is now announcing possible pressure on the X platform, a space where information that contradicts the image of multicultural harmony and economic growth that Sánchez wants to project circulates freely.

The Moncloa Palace is threatening prison sentences for the executives of the social network in Spain if they do not remove messages that the government considers “disinformation,” “hate speech,” or “polarizing.”

According to Sánchez himself, “disinformation doesn’t arise from nothing; it is something that is created, promoted, and disseminated by certain actors whom we will investigate, as well as the platforms whose algorithms amplify disinformation in exchange for profit.”

To combat this, the prime minister announced a series of legislative changes regarding online platforms. Some include a ban on the use of social media by minors under 16 as well al the so-called “penalization of algorithmic manipulation and the amplification of illegal content.”

Obviously, the definition of “illegal” will be decided by Sánchez himself and his inner circle, who do not have a very good reputation for telling the truth, as independent media outlets like Ok Diario have reported during the seven years of the socialist government.

In September 2025, the government delegate in Madrid blamed the far Right for the attack on three foreigners by two hooded individuals in the Hortaleza shopping center. However, the police had no evidence to link it to an ideologically motivated attack. The incident occurred days after a 17-year-old Moroccan boy raped a 14-year-old Spanish girl in front of the same shopping center.

Four months earlier, the minister of Transport claimed that the chaos that paralyzed the Madrid-Seville high-speed rail line, affecting more than 10,000 passengers, was caused by sabotage with alleged political motivations. However, the incident was caused by two common criminals who stole copper and were later arrested by the Civil Guard.

Around that time, First Vice President of the Government María Jesús Montero and several ministers validated as authentic WhatsApp messages from a former captain of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) in which they supposedly planned to plant a bomb in Sánchez’s car. Shortly afterward, it was confirmed that the dialogue had been taken out of context and that the former captain was claiming that they were the ones who felt they were in danger and that a limpet mine could be planted on them.

In short, may God have mercy on Spain as it drifts further and further from the European and civilizational ideal of freedom of expression, and gazes into the dark mirror of the tyrannies its government supports.