(This article was written by Hermann Terscht and appeared in the El Debate. Hermann Tertsch – España | Thank you to Donald Trump!)
The social democratic media chorus in Spain launched from the outset to condemn the US military action that has brought about the liberation of our compatriots
Yesterday the Spaniards set foot on Spanish soil, kidnapped for one or more years in Nicolás Maduro’s dungeons until the day before. The first thing that all the Spanish authorities should have done, from King Felipe VI to the all-meaning tiny minister Albares, is to have thanked the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for having taken them out of the sordid pit in which the hitmen of the miserable drug trafficking and socialist dictatorship had put them. ally, partner and accomplice of the Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). They also had to express their gratitude to the thousands of U.S. soldiers, police and members of the DEA who risked their lives and participated in the search and capture with great success of the leader of the criminal gang that has kidnapped the Spaniards and for 25 years the entire Venezuelan nation.
What has happened in Spain, however, has been something very different from what common sense and decency recommended to us and should fill us with shame. We have seen how the head of the government, Pedro Sánchez, and then unfortunately also King Felipe spoke of our compatriots “held” in Venezuela under the Maduro dictatorship and freed by Trump. You are “held back” by a traffic jam, a flight delay, or bad weather on a trip. The Spaniards were imprisoned, kidnapped without any defense or guarantee in torture prisons. Euphemisms become worse enemies of truth than lies. And if there is one thing that Donald Trump is hated so much for in progressivism and this reign of euphemism and hypocrisy that is social democratic Europe, it is because, in addition to his will to act to create a new favorable reality for his homeland and his compatriots, there are his direct and implacable ways of saying things.
The social democratic media chorus in Spain launched from the first moment to condemn the US military action that has brought about the liberation of our compatriots. And we have reached the paroxysm of vileness with very serious insults to Venezuelans for rejoicing that Donald Trump, yes, Donald Trump and the U.S. Army, have given the initial resounding blow to begin the dismantling of the dictatorship that has tortured and murdered without pause and flooded all of Venezuela with pain and misery for a quarter of a century. “Fascist worm” is what one of the doctors of the television Chekist left calls the large colony of Venezuelan exiles in Spain, only part of the more than eight million spread around the world, fleeing the curse of socialism and organized crime. You know, the victims of socialism have no right to complain.
Stalin sent to the Gulag anyone who complained about the quality of soup in the army and Kim Jong-un executed anyone who did not applaud his tyrant enough. The Spanish public television RTVE, which competes in vileness with the television stations of Cuba or Venezuela, already dedicates practically the entire day to political propaganda programs that demonize, criminalize, defame and target all those who do not applaud the criminal and corrupt socialist government. Venezuelans are guilty, like Cubans, of not enjoying the criminal regimes that crush them, but that pay well to Spanish socialists and communists who choose talk show hosts.
The European authorities who have been waiting for decades for evolution in the socialist dictatorships of Latin America, and who therefore finance the communist mafia in Cuba and financed Nicaragua and Venezuela, have now been a week since Maduro’s capture and consider it intolerable that we do not already have an exquisite transition towards the most perfect democracy. The transition to democracy began when María Corina Machado designed with her people a formula to go despite all the impediments to elections under the dictatorship, make a prodigious mobilization and guarantee, in a miraculous operation, the possession of the electoral records. Since then, no one can doubt that criminals are criminals, usurpers are usurpers and drug traffickers cannot hide behind a presidential institution.
But the world remained the same until Trump confirmed what was already true in his first term: that Venezuela with drug traffickers, money laundering, Chinese agents, Russian military, Islamist militants of Hezbollah and the Iranian guard, plus all the mercenaries of the worst kind, posed a threat to the security of the United States. And that is infecting the entire subcontinent from its total command in Cuba with Mexico, Colombia and Brazil as very dangerous exponents. Thanks to this, democracy and freedom will return, not tomorrow or the day after, to Venezuela. Delcy Rodríguez, with the gun to her temple of all the positions that await her in New York, if she does not serve as a submissive in charge of disarming her comrades, will open all the necessary resources for the United States to control and put an end to those omnipresent mafias in the structures of the State and outside them.
And the heroic María Corina and the democrats will begin to have their legitimate role as protagonists of the political life and future of Venezuela when the enemies of everything they mean do not have the capacity to set the country on fire. What is Trump interested in about oil? Thank goodness. That way neither the Chinese, the Russians nor the Iranians will have it and it will serve, as has happened in the past, for Americans and Venezuelans to make Venezuela a prosperous, rich and happy country.
Those who ask for full sovereignty and full democracy today and now in Venezuela have not asked for it in 25 years. They were not in a hurry. Thanks to María Corina Machado and thanks to Donald Trump, Venezuela will be democratic much sooner than those arrogant European politicians who are destroying democracies in their own countries with increasing censorship and social engineering believe.
The good news is that, apart from Trump in the US, there are many forces in the West determined to end the euphemisms and moral misery of cowardice. Thus, Vox has just denounced Rodríguez Zapatero in the National Court for his collaboration with Maduro’s criminal regime. And Zapatero’s victims have begun to speak. Soon we will have, apart from the cases that are already being investigated in the United States, documents and evidence of all the links of corruption and complicity between that gang of murderers in Caracas and the organized crime gang that governs in Spain.
Very good things are happening. And we have Donald Trump to thank. The criminal regime of Islamist clerics in Tehran may also fall these days. Also with a lot of help from Israel and Trump. It’s a good start to 2026. Just seeing the faces, the cries and the tears of the Spanish leftist scoundrel confirms it.
Hermann Terscht is a Distinguished Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C. based foreign policy and defense think tank.
