Efe calls Kast and Milei 'far-right' but does not call three dictators 'far-left'

Pedro Sánchez's government projects its political sectarianism onto everything it controls, including the government news agency Efe.

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Today, that agency controlled by the socialists displayed its curious idea of ​​journalistic rigor in a news piece titled "How the political map of Latin America looks after the victory of the far-right Kast in Chile. The EFE report describes the winner of yesterday's presidential elections in Chile, the Republican José Antonio Kast, as "far-right", an expression it also uses to discredit the democratically elected president of Argentina, Javier Milei.

Both Kast and Milei are democratic politicians who have won free elections, but Efe applies this disqualification to them simply because they don't subscribe to the left's ideological agenda.In reality, these labels only highlight Efe's ideological sectarianism and its manipulations when referring to left-wing political rivals. These manipulations are how Efe engages in activism, not journalism. In fact, its treatment of far-left politicians (a label that describes the non-democratic left) is very different.

En esa misma crónica, Efe habla de tres dictadores de ultraizquierda: Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) y Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba), pero su tratamiento hacia ellos evita los adjetivos que aplica a Kast y a Milei, políticos democráticos. Efe no llama "ultraizquierdistas" a esos tres dictadores y también evita llamar "dictaduras" a sus regímenes, sobre los que afirma: "Venezuela, Cuba y Nicaragua mantienen desde hace décadas gobiernos que son cuestionados por numerosos organismos internacionales debido a sus graves lagunas democráticas".

In that same article, Efe refers to three far-left dictators: Nicolás Maduro (Venezuela), Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua), and Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba), but its treatment of them avoids the adjectives it applies to Kast and Milei, democratic politicians. Efe does not call these three dictators "far-left" and also avoids calling their regimes "dictatorships," stating: "Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua have maintained governments for decades that are questioned by numerous international organizations due to their serious democratic shortcomings."

Would Efe say that Francisco Franco's regime had "serious democratic shortcomings," instead of calling it a "dictatorship"? You don't have to use your imagination to find the answer. On October 13, in a brief article, Efe referred to Francoism as a "dictatorship" four times. But when dictatorships are socialist or communist, Efe avoids that word. That's activism, not journalism.

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Photo: "Presidency of Cuba". From left to right, the dictators of Nicaragua (Daniel Ortega), Cuba (Miguel Díaz-Canel) and Venezuela (Nicolás Maduro).