Sánchez threatens Spain with censorship to cover up the 47 train deaths

Spain suffers the misfortune of having a weak government, besieged by corruption scandals and with high levels of incompetence.

Spain deserves a government that monitors the railways, not opinions on social media
Sánchez will spend 271 million on propaganda in 2026 while degrading our trains

The trail of deaths left by the incompetence of Sánchez's government

We Spaniards have witnessed very serious events for the past two years. One of them was the government's abandonment of the victims of the 2024 Valencia floods, which did not mobilize the Army until four days after the disaster, caused largely by a disastrous water policy of a government that, after more than 200 deaths, more than a year later has done nothing to prevent it from happening again.

A few months later, while the victims of those floods were still waiting for the aid promised by the government, Spain suffered its first national blackout in almost half a century of democracy, a blackout that caused eight deaths and whose causes the government has still not explained, entrenched in a policy of opacity whose purpose is to prevent that we question a disastrous energy policy based on closing all nuclear power plants - which provide stability to the system - while other European countries build more to avoid suffering an energy dependency situation like the one Spain suffers under this government.

The 47 dead in Adamuz and Gélida and the lies of the government

Finally, somes weeks ago Spain suffered two serious fatal train accidents, in Adamuz and Gélida, which have served to bring to light the deplorable maintenance of government-dependent infrastructure, at a time when Spain is registering historic levels of tax revenue. Those accidents were very serious: 47 people died in them, and at the moment what we know about the more serious of the two, the Adamuz accident, is that the Minister of Transport, the socialist Óscar Puente, lied to cover up the government's responsibility for what happened.

These train accidents have sown distrust in a transport network used daily by millions of Spaniards. Under the government of Pedro Sánchez, a coalition of losers from the 2023 general elections formed by socialists and communists, Spain has gone from having an admirable high-speed rail network to having one that is shameful, the clearest daily effect of which is the constant disrepair many lines suffer due to the deficient maintenance of the infrastructure.

Sánchez focuses on propaganda while degrading our infrastructure

Pedro Sánchez has already proven himself to be a terrible manager who is more obsessed with propaganda than with doing his job properly. In fact, a few days after those two fatal accidents and while many users continue to suffer the problems of the Spanish rail network due to the mismanagement of the leftist government, the government approved a budget of 271 million euros for propaganda in 2026. The objective of this measure is the same as always: to control the narrative while public services fall apart.

The problem this government faces is that it cannot control social media, which has become a major channel of information. This partly explains the digital censorship announced by Sánchez this week. For some time now, this avenue for the free transmission of information and opinions has become a veritable obsession for the socialist leader: Sánchez even went so far as to compare using social media to buying a gun, an outrageous statement that strongly resembles the crude excuses of the dictator Nicolás Maduro for blocking Twitter in Venezuela. However, Sánchez now lacks a parliamentary majority to approve these measures, and because they affect fundamental rights, he cannot regulate them through a royal decree law, which is the formula he has now chosen to govern outside of Congress.

Creating tension to cover up the 47 deaths in the train accidents

Despite this, Sánchez knows that these announcements generate tension and that many leftists are willing to justify anything he proposes, even ideas that threaten freedom of expression and freedom of information. For Sánchez, these announcements are a very useful smokescreen to cover up the 47 train deaths and prevent discussion of the government's responsibility for what happened, a fact that could damage him electorally more than the corruption scandals, since concern about the lack of safety on the railway network affects Spaniards of all ideologies.

Thus, in Spain we have reached the extreme of having a government that uses the threat of censorship to prevent discussion of its role in the deaths of 47 people, simply because the far left, which Sánchez needs to keep his party in power and prevent its disappearance in the next elections, is willing to forget these deaths if the government focuses on censoring the "fascists," which is how a large part of the left labels all Spaniards who do not share their ideological views. This is the same government that warns against "polarization" while simultaneously exploiting it for its own benefit, generating a social conflict that is very useful for making millions of left-wing voters forget such serious events as these accidents.

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Photo: La Moncloa.