(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. Delcy y Zapatero, más allá del amor)

Many of you will not know that last Tuesday a Bolivian woman, the former constitutional president Jeanine Áñez, completed her third year in a Bolivian prison.

In lamentable conditions she is serving an unjust and unjustifiable sentence. All the charges against her are falsehoods, fabrications of a narco-communist regime. Many other patriotic Bolivians met the same fate.

What you will also not know is that one day later the former prime minister of Spain, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, arrived in Bolivia.

Anyone who thinks he came to demand the freedom of Áñez and of the hundreds of political prisoners that the regime of Luis Arce already holds in its dictatorial and criminal drift is mistaken.

No, Zapatero came to Bolivia with Delcy Rodríguez, the one of the suitcases that we do not know how many times, in what number, and through how many airports and ports have arrived in Spain in recent years.

Delcy is a criminal drug trafficker banned in Europe, vice-president of the murderer Nicolás Maduro and a very great friend of the Spanish government. What Sánchez, Zapatero, Borrell and the rest of the socialists have with Delcy seems much more important than love.

Also with them was the symbol of narco corruption, the former Colombian president Ernesto Samper, and some other luminaries of the Puebla Group and the São Paulo Forum, the multinational of the symbiosis between the communist movement and organized crime that exploits drug trafficking.

Zapatero and his illustrious company had arrived on a goodwill mission — if that is possible with people of this ilk — a mission of reconciliation or peace among their own. For in Bolivia a war has broken out between the former president Evo Morales and President Luis Arce.

They were friends and Arce was Morales’s minister, but power has these things. Both want to command the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) and both want to control the businesses still held by a country sinking into bankruptcy, into the incompetence of its rulers, and into crime. The businesses are the mines and cocaine. And precious little else.

What matters, of course, is the main weapon for the expansion of the entire totalitarian communist movement in the subcontinent, which is cocaine. That the whole Bolivian people suffer ever more, and that its prisoners live wretchedly and die, is not what worries this gang gathered there.

What worries the Puebla Group is that wars among their own greatly harm business. Bolivia is a key country in the massive expansion of the coca business and drug trafficking.

We do not know whether the two Rodríguezes, Zapatero and Delcy, have succeeded in their mediation work. We also know that Delcy, vice-president of the most murderous and torturing regime in America today, is not moved by political prisoners.

They say Zapatero is not moved either, even though he knows about them, because he has spent a decade now in the service of his friend the murderer Maduro in all kinds of matters that are always profitable but never honorable.

Jeanine Áñez, as interim constitutional president, had handed over power to Luis Arce in an impeccable transition at a ceremony in the presence of King Felipe VI on November 8, 2020.

It took the new president only a few months to arrest his predecessor and many others who had done their duty in the violent crisis of November 2018, after the attempted electoral fraud by the communist and drug trafficker Evo Morales and his subsequent flight in the face of the popular uprising.

If Zapatero’s role is repugnant — not only in his visit to Bolivia this week but throughout his entire existence since 11-M, and of course in his very murky role as a fixer for the worst Spanish-American criminals — one must also describe as contemptible the silence on this anniversary of those responsible at the Organization of American States and the European Union, Luís Almagro and Josep Borrell.

Because it was the OAS and the EU that vouched for Áñez assuming the presidency when those ahead of her in rank refused it. In the past three years we have not once heard Borrell demand the freedom of Áñez and of the Bolivian political prisoners. Lately he seems dedicated only to insulting and defaming Israel, once again taking on that role of defender of the Iranian regime and its puppets in Gaza and Lebanon.

Josep Borrell is another who, like Zapatero, has succumbed to the charms of the São Paulo Forum and has campaigned in favor of all its candidates throughout the shameful years in which he has held the supposed representation of the EU’s foreign policy.

All of them are enemies of freedom, all of them linked to the great cartels of the FARC, the ELN, the Venezuelan government and army, the Mexican cartels that are partners of López Obrador and today the owners of half of Ecuador.

All of them have had the official support of the European Union thanks to Borrell, the Spanish government and the PSOE, utterly devoted to the Puebla Group in all its interests.

With special obscenity in the protection and subsidizing of the Cuban dictatorship with European money.

All these sad and lamentable facts would have at least one positive effect if they led Spaniards to understand the true character of the forces that govern under Sánchez.

And to reflect on the colossal danger of this invasion of Europe, through Spain, by Ibero-American organized crime with its ideological banners — a plan forged in its day by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez, which began twenty years ago and is today a reality.

Because if the Spanish socialists have so very much affinity with the murderers and torturers with whom they sit down, travel and share suitcases, it should not surprise us that one day they will treat Spaniards as they are treating Cubans, Bolivians, Venezuelans or Nicaraguans.

And if someone now comes and says that in Europe that is not possible, I would answer that in the Europe of the 21st century everything is already as possible as in the 20th.

Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.