The AVE cables, China and Spain, a country where stealing is very cheap for a thief

Spain is plagued by a number of problems that have solutions, but which don't seem to be among our politicians' priorities.

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Railway cable theft, China and the mafias

One of them, quite serious, is the periodic theft of railway overhead cables, especially those on high-speed tracks (whose trains are known in Spain as AVE). This Sunday, a theft at four points on the AVE track that passes through Toledo left more than 6,300 passengers trapped and 18 trains affected. It is yet another of the news stories that have been appearing in our media lately and that give an image of Spanish railway transport worthy of a Third World image.

It would be tempting to blame this phenomenon on the current government, which is partly to blame, but it is not the only one. These thefts have been occurring in Spain for more than a decade, due to the rise in the price of copper caused by the growing demand for that metal in communist China, whose copper imports from Spain are fueled, in part, by the theft of overhead power lines by mafias that recruit criminals multi-repeat offenders.

A government busier on a bizarre ideological agenda

It should be noted that Spain is not the only country affected: as Abc pointed out in 2022, other Western countries are also suffering from these thefts. The difference is that other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, have taken the problem seriously and have decided to combat it in various ways. In Spain, the Sánchez government is too busy developing its bizarre ideological agenda and pleasing its separatist partners, dismantling much of the foundations of our rule of law, to deal with problems as serious as copper theft.

Stealing is very cheap for thieves in Spain

In fact, the aforementioned Abc news story pointed out these figures for 2015, the last year with official data on this problem (remember that the news was from 2022): "There was a robbery almost every hour: 8,150 thefts in total. More than 1,000 people were arrested. But it's hard for thieves to end up in jail. So it pays off for them. The main danger they run is electrocution. There have been several cases."

The theft of high-speed rail cables is not an isolated incident. Stealing in Spain is very cheap for thieves, as residents and tourists in several Spanish cities unfortunately discover every day. Thieves are caught and released quickly, without ever going to prison. We are laughed at thanks to a political class that is more focused on gender issues and other ideological fads than on solving the real problems of the Spanish people. It is not a problem exclusive to the Socialists: during Mariano Rajoy's government, the government also failed to take the problem seriously.

Politicians far removed from the real problems of the Spanish people

The situation created by cable thefts on Spanish railways is as Kafkaesque as squatting, which sometimes results in the arrest of the rightful owner of the property for trying to evict the squatters themselves. For years, Spain has had leaders who seem to disdain the value of private property and the seriousness of thefts, probably because most politicians lead comfortable and secure lives that prevent them from experiencing such situations. As long as there is no drastic change in mentality, Spain will continue to slide down this slippery slope towards the Third World, with increasingly deteriorating public services, growing insecurity and politicians more concerned with promoting 37 sexual identities and other such stupidities.

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Photo: Mikel Ortega.