(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. Estamos mucho mejor)

We are better off today than before, even though we are sunk as never before. We are better off than before because ever more Spaniards know that we are sunk, whereas until five years ago, although we were already sinking further every day, there was still no awareness of it. Today, perhaps, even a majority of Spaniards are already conscious that we are governed by organised crime. And that the steps which have brought us to the abyss were never taken in good faith nor with the least respect for the general interest. They were taken out of convenience for Spanish and foreign criminal interests.

It is precisely the foreign links that are very important in explaining the drift of the socialist governments, first of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and afterwards, in brutal fashion, those of Pedro Sánchez, towards ideological, political and executive positions much closer to the Ibero-American political spheres of narco-communism.

There are many Spaniards who support or sympathise with Santiago Abascal and who cannot quite understand why a leader of the opposition in Spain, within a reality as putrid as this one under Sánchez, should have devoted so much interest and activity to cooperation with the anti-communist forces and the enemies of narco-socialism in Ibero-America. The fact is that the leader of VOX was the first political leader in Spain to understand the extent to which the transformation of the Spanish political struggle since the start of the century is due to Spain having become the initial battlefield in Europe where organised crime intends to move to take total control, as in Venezuela or Mexico.

Organised crime moreover counts, thanks to its leftist banners, on the support, whether foolish, deluded or malicious, of the globalist forces of the European Union. The photograph of Delcy Rodríguez with Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels, with the Venezuelan criminal barred from setting foot on European soil, is quite a symbol. The EU has been the greatest ally of all the candidates of the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group in Ibero-America. And the protector of their criminal regimes, the supreme example being that of the communist dictatorship of Cuba, subsidised by Brussels.

If the organised crime of the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group have used the bonds of Hispanidad to make Spain the bridgehead of this totalitarian project with their strange allies of supposedly impeccable democrats in Europe, then the immense treasure that is Hispanidad and its infinite ties must be used for the reconquest of freedom both in America and in Europe, where we are losing it in floods every day and not only in Spain.

With Hispanidad, freedom, anti-communism and hope as their banner and with a mandate from Abascal, the Disenso Foundation together with the Madrid Forum set out to create these synergies for an effective fight against the expansionism and the brutality of that organised crime with an ideology which has emerged in past decades from the fusion of the communist movement with the drug cartels.

The great success of VOX in Ibero-America with the Madrid Forum and with the Disenso Foundation, which has literally wiped off the map foundations that have been present in Ibero-America for decades and with immense budgets, is due to the firmness, clarity and readiness to fight that they have shown. Qualities that so distinguish them from those forces which, in their eternal search for harmony with socialism, ended up either swallowed, defeated or murdered by it.

The Madrid Forum is inspired by the same non-negotiable spirit as the Iberosphere Summit that the Patriots group in the European Parliament is organising in Madrid this coming week: there is nothing to discuss with socialism. Socialism is a plague, a disease of the soul as Javier Milei says, and it must be defeated.

That is why the fight against narco-communism is the same fight as the one against Pedro Sánchez and against Zapatero and against their friends Maduro, Petro and Díaz Canel, who are, when all is said and done, the ones who hold the keys to the oil and to the cocaine. As also to the great deal of laundering that can be done in the Caribbean or in China. And until now also in Iran which, let us not forget, is another of the partners that helped Zapatero so that he could begin the institutional dismantling of Spain, make his alliance with ETA and with the Catalan coup plotters. As it was also a help afterwards to Sánchez with that small Venezuelan-Iranian product that is Pablo Iglesias, with whom he formed the first government of this personal and criminal project which must take Sánchez to the dock when this long excursion ends, an excursion that began with the Peugeot and ends in a colossal tragedy, in a criminal apotheosis and infinite damage for Spaniards.

We are better off today than before because we are already witnessing the greatest crisis of that joint project of regime change of Spanish socialism and organised crime, which has been functioning and advancing ever since this alliance came to power after the explosion of the 11M bombs of 2004. It is a power that in reality this alliance never relinquished, even though its representatives and its government presided over by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero spectacularly lost the elections to a Partido Popular that obtained an absolute majority with 186 deputies.

The seven years of Rajoy’s government, first of emergency and afterwards of corruption and indolence, neither bent nor braked the coup project of socialism and its criminal allies at home and abroad. And not precisely because the Partido Popular lacked the possibility, the necessary time and the overwhelming absolute majority that were required for a radical change in the course and the discourse of politics in order to save Spanish democracy and stop its enemies. It had the resources but it did not know what for.

When the nightmare of Sánchez’s criminal band and its allies is over, let us hope in peaceful fashion and without the criminals being able to use other methods from a not-distant past, Spaniards must be very conscious that they cannot repeat the mistakes of the past. Those who wish to change Sánchez for a grand project of harmonisation with the socialists will once again commit the errors that have always led to tragedy. The fall of the delinquent government must bring with it a radical change in the forms of government. Everything else is to go on along the agonising route designed by the enemies of Spain so that it should disappear into the hands of organised crime in various taifas, under different flags.

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.