Spain's blackout as a failed experiment and the ingenuity of The Telegraph

The British newspaper The Telegraph yesterday shed some light on the Sánchez government's lack of haste in explaining the April 28 blackout.

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In a news story by veteran journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph states: "It is the socialist government, not green energy, that ought to be on trial in this fiasco." The story begins by stating the following: "The stench of a cover-up hangs over Spain’s giant blackout, the worst electricity failure in any developed country in modern times." But what is most striking is what can be read in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the text:

"Sources in Brussels have told The Telegraph that the authorities were conducting an experiment before the system crashed, probing how far they could push reliance on renewables in preparation for Spain’s rushed phase-out of nuclear reactors from 2027.

The government seems to have pushed the pace recklessly, before making the necessary investments in a sophisticated 21st-century smart grid capable of handling it."

De ser cierto, esto explicaría por qué casi un mes después el gobierno aún no ha ofrecido una explicación de lo ocurrido, a pesar de todos los medios del Estado de los que dispone a su servicio. Una tardanza que alimenta razonables sospechas de que nos está ocultando la verdad, una ocultación que explicaría también maniobras de distracción como el jaleo de Sánchez con Eurovisión y sus ataques a Israel, en un descarado intento para generar titulares que hagan olvidar el grave apagón del 28 de abril y Eviten incómodas preguntas para el gobierno.

But if that is true, then we must deduce that the Sánchez government would not be the only one covering up the truth, but also the European Commission, in the hands of Ursula von der Leyen, who in recent years has shown great harmony with the Spanish socialist leader and who governs in Brussels thanks to a pact with the socialists.

Still, I have to admit that The Telegraph story made me smile at some point because of the naiveté the newspaper displays. I'm referring to what can be read in the eighth paragraph:

"If it is established that the blackout was a controlled experiment that went wrong, and if this information has been withheld from the public for almost four weeks, the Spanish Left faces electoral oblivion for a political generation."

That would probably happen in the UK or other European countries, but the Spanish left has already proven itself sectarian enough to forget about something like this and worse in record time. The examples are endless: Sánchez's pacts with ETA's heirs, his corruption scandals (with his wife, his brother, his attorney general, and his former right-hand man charged with various crimes), his granting of privileges to his separatist partners convicted of serious crimes (first pardons, then an unconstitutional amnesty), and its attacks on judicial independence and fundamental rights, its offensive against press freedom, his alliance with all kinds of dictatorships and much more.

Spanish socialism is increasingly resembling a cult in which everything the leader does is justified with the most bizarre excuses, although the most common is to call anyone who contradicts them "far right," including the judges investigating their corruption scandals and the media that have exposed them.

What we're seeing in Spain is increasingly similar to Venezuela, with a prime minister who displays the attitudes of an autocrat, who surrounds himself with a bunch of sycophants who owe him favors and who buys votes with everyone's money, giving rise to a fanatical left that swallows anything Sánchez does. The question now is very simple: what do all the Spaniards who are not part of that fanatical left plan to do about it?

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