Like Sánchez, Maduro speaks of 'treason to the homeland' to criminalize the opposition

Autocrats are easy to recognize because they all exhibit the same anti-democratic attitudes, even when they claim to be democrats.

Sánchez adopts the forms of the worst dictators to attack Santiago Abascal
Pedro Sánchez's government is complicit in Maduro's extortion against Edmundo González

This Wednesday I commented here that in the government control session, held that same day in the Congress of Deputies, the socialist Pedro Sánchez described Santiago Abascal as a "traitor to the Homeland" for his criticism of the government, criticisms that are not only part of the right to freedom of expression that is inherent to a democracy, but are part of the duty of a parliamentary opposition, which is the function exercised by Vox, the party led by Abascal.

As I pointed out that day, by identifying himself with the Homeland and describing legitimate criticism of the government as a betrayal of Spain, Sánchez imitated the worst dictators, such as tyrants like Kim Jong-un, whose country, North Korea, is a large communist prison in which any criticism of the dictator is interpreted in exactly the same way that Sánchez interprets criticism of his government.

The most revealing thing about this scandalous accusation by the Spanish socialist leader is that one of the worst dictators used the same accusation against an opposition leader two days earlier. It happened in Venezuela, a country that has been subjected to a socialist dictatorship for decades, the same ideology that Sánchez defends. The Nicolás Maduro regime has accused opposition leader María Corina Machado of "treason to the country", for supporting US sanctions against the Maduro dictatorship. An anti-democratic regime that has the support of other dictatorships such as Russia, Iran, Cuba, communist China and Nicaragua, while arousing the rejection of democratic countries.

It must be said that this accusation was made six days ago, so this Wednesday, when Sánchez used those same terms to accuse the leader of the third most voted party in Spain, he surely already knew about the new attack by the Maduro regime against Machado. Sanchez has not had any qualms about using a way of criminalizing the opposition that is typical of a dictatorship, and he did so two days after the Maduro regime used that same formula against Machado. The Spanish socialist leader has had no qualms about imitating a dictator, revealing what his mentality is when it comes to governing. Now we know why Sánchez always avoids calling Maduro a "dictator."

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