The Cubanization of Spain: Government imposes censorship in a railway chaos

Yesterday, the city of Madrid experienced a new episode of railway chaos, something that has become habitual under the Sánchez government.

Sánchez, his mafia-like exercise of power and the silence of a large part of journalism
Pedro Sánchez imitates a measure of the Putin regime to limit press freedom

The railway chaos this Saturday in Madrid

This time, several railway lines were interrupted because an unauthorized person accessed the upper walkway of the Atocha station. According to Trenvista, it was due to a suicide attempt. The same source has indicated that a series 114 train has derailed in the international gauge Atocha-Chamartín tunnel. Trenvista has published these photos of the disaster, in which both the convoy and the tunnel have been damaged. The removal of this convoy and the repair of the damage to the tunnel will probably take several days.

In addition, Vloonk has released these photos of the crashed train, which have been circulated on social media. I don't know who the author is, although I assume it must be someone from ADIF, the Spanish Railway Infrastructure Manager.

The poor management of the socialist Óscar Puente as Minister of Transport

Obviously, not even the best government can prevent a suicide attempt or an accident from happening, but what is happening with trains in Spain is not normal. Lately, railway incidents have become sadly common, especially in Madrid.

The socialist Óscar Puente, Minister of Transport since November 21, 2023, is doing a lamentable job, dedicating himself more to the shameful task of dodging the issue than to giving explanations. In fact, the few explanations he gives are offered from a Twitter account in which he has blocked half of Spain, due to his unhealthy habit of blocking anyone who disagrees with him, an unacceptable attitude for a member of the government who is receiving a generous public salary.

ADIF, at the orders of the ministry, imposes an information blackout on the media

As if the mismanagement were not enough, yesterday we saw something unusual in a democracy: ADIF, dependent on Óscar Puente's ministry, prohibited the media from reporting from Atocha station, even expelling journalists who were doing their job, as happened to a TeleMadrid team. Even media close to the government, such as Televisión Española and La Sexta, have suffered this act of censorship typical of an anti-democratic regime.

Under the leadership of a coalition government made up of socialists and communists, Spain is already experiencing an alarming process of Cubanization, and not because we have a climate similar to that of the island of Cuba lately, but because we have a government that is imitating the customs of that communist dictatorship, which in addition to having ruined that Caribbean country, filling its institutions with communist militants as inept as they are corrupt, then prevents information from being reported on the consequences, leaving multitudes of people locked up in trains or stranded in a station for hours.

Sánchez's offensive against freedom of information

What happened yesterday was a clear demonstration of what Pedro Sánchez is preparing with his offensive against freedom of information, an offensive motivated by his desire to cover up the corruption scandals that affect his government, his party and his closest family environment, but which is now also aimed at hiding the third world drift that is being caused by the poor management of this government, whose priorities seem to be doing favors for its separatist allies and ETA terrorists, and leaving aside the real problems of the Spanish people.

As serious and intolerable as this is in a democracy, there is something even worse: the docility with which many media outlets welcome these acts of censorship and this poor political management, as if in a democracy it were normal for a government to prevent journalists from carrying out their work so that the chaos they are causing is not discussed. What is happening in Spain is not only the fault of a government that abuses its power, but also of those who remain silent in the face of these abuses, as if they believed that the government has the right to commit them.