{"id":49765,"date":"2022-12-17T17:56:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T16:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49765"},"modified":"2024-12-17T00:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T23:24:04","slug":"pedro-sanchez-said-he-would-imitate-a-socialist-leader-who-led-a-coup-detat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/17\/pedro-sanchez-said-he-would-imitate-a-socialist-leader-who-led-a-coup-detat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro S\u00e1nchez said he would imitate a socialist leader who led a coup d'\u00e9tat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e1nchez's coup to the separation of powers, violating the Constitution and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/16\/sanchezs-coup-against-the-justice-in-spain-is-a-copy-of-what-chavez-did-in-venezuela\/\">imitating Hugo Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>, is it just the beginning of something even worse?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/16\/sanchezs-coup-against-the-justice-in-spain-is-a-copy-of-what-chavez-did-in-venezuela\/\">S\u00e1nchez's coup against the Justice in Spain is a copy of what Ch\u00e1vez did in Venezuela<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/09\/yesterday-peru-and-now-spain-coup-by-the-leftist-govt-against-judicial-independence\/\">Yesterday Peru and now Spain: coup by the leftist govt against judicial independence<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>\"He acted as we want to act today,\" he said about Largo Caballero<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On May 19, 2021, in a speech at the 43rd congress of the socialist union UGT, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSOE\/status\/1394979656965701632\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez vindicated Francisco Largo Caballero and announced: \"He acted as we want to act today\"<\/a>. The Socialist Party itself spread those words of S\u00e1nchez and the corresponding video on its Twitter account:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf39 Quiero comenzar recordando a Francisco Largo Caballero.<\/p>\n<p>Actu\u00f3 como hoy queremos actuar nosotros:<br \/>\u270a Comprometi\u00e9ndose con su \u00e9poca, respondiendo ante la adversidad con m\u00e1s democracia y dignificando la vida de los m\u00e1s vulnerables.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanchezcastejon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sanchezcastejon<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/43CongrestoUGT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#43CongrestoUGT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NZxDNL2AtV\">pic.twitter.com\/NZxDNL2AtV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PSOE (@PSOE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSOE\/status\/1394979656965701632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><big>A socialist leader who wanted to impose a dictatorship and who justified violence<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Francisco Largo Caballero was president of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) between October 1932 and December 1935. <strong>He was the leader of the most radical and Marxist wing of the party<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/10\/11\/largo-caballero-las-frases-antidemocraticas-del-lider-extremista-al-que-reivindica-el-psoe\/\">openly defended a \"socialist dictatorship\"<\/a> during the years of the Second Republic. Largo Caballero used to resort to incendiary oratory in which he <strong>openly defended violence for political purposes and flouted the law when it was not favorable to him:<\/strong> <em>\"For the record: the Socialist Party is going to conquer of Power, and it is going to conquer, as I say, legally if it can be. <strong>We wish it could be legally, in accordance with the Constitution, and if not, however we can<\/strong>\"<\/em>, he said on July 23, 1933 in a speech during a PSOE rally at the Pardi\u00f1as cinema in Madrid (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/documentos\/el-socialista-no-7-634-25-de-julio-de-1933\/\">N\u00ba 7.634 of 'El Socialista', July 25, 1933, page 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><big>Largo Caballero threatened a \"civil war\" before the 1933 elections<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Facing the general elections of November 1933, the first in which women voted in Spain, and <strong>foreseeing an electoral victory for the right, Largo Caballero threatened civil war:<\/strong> <em>\"We are going legally towards the evolution of society. But if you don't want to, <strong>we will make the revolution violently.<\/strong> (\u2026) This, the enemies will say, is to excite civil war. Let's get down to reality. There is a civil war. What is it if not the struggle that takes place every day between employers and workers? <strong>We are in the middle of a civil war. Let us not blind ourselves, comrades.<\/strong> What happens is that this war is not it has still taken on the bloody characteristics that, fortunately or unfortunately, it will inexorably have to take.<\/em> <strong>It was a clear threat of a coup d'\u00e9tat and Largo Caballero pronounced it on November 8, 1933, eleven days before the elections<\/strong>, at a PSOE rally in Don Benito, Badajoz (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/documentos\/el-socialista-no-7-726-9-de-noviembre-de-1933\/\">N\u00ba 7.726 of 'El Socialista', November 9, 1933, page 6<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><big>The threats from the left postponed the arrival of the right-wing to government for almost a year<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Despite the threats from the PSOE president, <strong>the right-wing won the 1933 elections, but Largo Caballero's threats continued.<\/strong> In April 1934, at the 5th Ordinary Congress of the Federation of Socialist Youth held in Madrid, <strong>the president of the PSOE stated: <em>\"political power must be seized in a revolutionary way\"<\/em><\/strong>, and immediately afterwards he added: <em>\"I have to state that the revolution will not it does with cries of long live Socialism, long live communism and long live anarchism. <strong>It is done violently<\/strong>.\"<\/em> Largo Caballero warned the young socialists: <em>\"When this moment arrives, we will have to face the fight decisively\"<\/em> (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/documentos\/el-socialista-no-7-867-21-de-abril-de-1934\/\">N\u00ba 7.867 of 'El Socialista', April 21, 1934, front page<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Threats from the left<\/strong> led to the formation of a centrist government, chaired by Alejandro Lerroux, and <strong>postponed the entry of right-wing ministers into the government for almost a year<\/strong>, until 3 October 1934.<\/p>\n<p><big>He carried out his threats and led a coup on October 5, 1934<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Finally, two days after the right-wing came to the government after having won the elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/09\/19\/asi-fue-el-golpe-de-estado-de-1934-contra-la-2a-republica-que-el-psoe-no-quiere-condenar\/\">Largo Caballero and the PSOE carried out their threats and led an armed rebellion<\/a>, supported by the Communist Party of Spain and the anarchists of the CNT. <strong>It was a bloody coup d'\u00e9tat<\/strong> and its main stage was in Asturias, forcing the government to send the Army to restore order. <strong>The coup plotters murdered 33 priests and religious and 300 soldiers and members of the security forces<\/strong>, and also destroyed 17 churches, 40 religious buildings and dozens of factories, bridges, houses and public buildings. <strong>It was a much more violent coup than the one that occurred on February 23, 1981<\/strong>, known as 23-F.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Largo Caballero was arrested on October 14 and sent to the Modelo Prison in Madrid as the top leader of the coup.<\/strong> He was imprisoned until the trial was held a year later. Surprisingly, on November 30, 1935, he was acquitted for lack of evidence, a scandalous sentence if we take into account that the president of the PSOE himself instigated and led that coup.<\/p>\n<p><big>Threatened \"civil war\" if the right won the 1936 election<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The impunity he enjoyed after carrying out a coup against a democratic government encouraged Largo Caballero to continue along the same lines as before. On January 27, 1936, in a speech at a PSOE rally in Alicante, <strong>he threatened \"civil war\" if the right wing won the February elections of that year:<\/strong> <em>\"I want to tell you to the right-wing that if we win we will collaborate with our allies; but <strong>if the right-wing wins, our work will have to be double<\/strong>, because with our allies we will be able to work legally, and <strong>by winning the right-wing we will have to go to declared civil war.<\/strong> And this is not a threat, it is a warning. And they should not say that we say things just to say them: that we do them\"<\/em> (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/documentos\/el-socialista-no-8-044-28-de-enero-de-1936\/\">No. 8,044 of 'El Socialista', January 28, 1936, page 4, columns 1 and 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><big>The highest political person in charge of the Paracuellos massacre<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Already during the Spanish Civil War, Largo Caballero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/11\/07\/el-papel-del-dirigente-socialista-francisco-largo-caballero-en-la-masacre-de-paracuellos\/\">he was the president of the Council of Ministers of the Republic when the Paracuellos massacre took place<\/a>, in which some 5,000 political prisoners (men, women and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/11\/07\/the-names-of-the-50-children-killed-by-communists-in-the-paracuellos-massacre\/\">also 50 children<\/a>) were killed by communists. <strong>Largo Caballero was the highest political person responsible for that massacre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Pedro S\u00e1nchez said that Largo Caballero <em>\"acted as we want to act today\"<\/em>, <strong>he not only vindicated that violent, coup-mongering and totalitarian socialist leader, but also encouraged them to imitate him<\/strong>. So, what is happening now in Spain should not surprise us, nor what is to come, because I am very afraid that<strong> this coup to the separation of powers is only the beginning of what S\u00e1nchez has in mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/52488720365\/in\/dateposted\/\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s coup to the separation of powers, violating the Constitution and imitating Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, is it just the beginning of something even worse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[18079,3508,693,2721,11462],"class_list":["post-49765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-coup-detat-of-1934","tag-francisco-largo-caballero","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 00:34:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}