{"id":53973,"date":"2023-11-22T19:13:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T18:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53973"},"modified":"2024-11-22T00:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:06:42","slug":"a-communist-and-admirer-of-fidel-castro-is-named-number-two-of-minister-sira-rego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/22\/a-communist-and-admirer-of-fidel-castro-is-named-number-two-of-minister-sira-rego\/","title":{"rendered":"A communist and admirer of Fidel Castro is named number two of Minister Sira Rego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has the only government in the European Union with communist ministers, to which must be added their subordinates.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/20\/the-communist-fanaticism-of-minister-sira-rego-and-the-response-that-a-vox-professor-gave-her\/\">The communist fanaticism of Minister Sira Rego and the response that a Vox professor gave her<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/10\/the-links-of-yolanda-diazs-party-with-a-terrorist-group-that-supports-hamas\/\">The links of Yolanda D\u00edaz's party with a terrorist group that supports Hamas<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>He has held leading positions in the Communist Party for decades<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Today it was known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farodevigo.es\/espana\/2023\/11\/21\/exlider-marea-vigo-ruben-perez-secretario-estado-juventud-infancia-94924032.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the appointment of Rub\u00e9n P\u00e9rez Correa (Vigo, 1977) as Secretary of State for Youth and Children<\/a>. Most of the media that have reported on this appointment point out that <strong>he was a councilor for Marea de Vigo and a local leader of Izquierda Unida<\/strong>, but they forget to give some more details, which can be read at <a href=\"https:\/\/euvigo.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/biografia-candidato-esquerda-unida-de-vigo.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the biography published in 2010 on the Esquerda blog United Vigo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"<strong>Since 1997 he has been a member of the Central Committee of the COMMUNIST PARTY OF GALICIA<\/strong> and since 2000 a member of its executive committee. He is currently the organizational secretary of the Galician federation of the PCE and <strong>member of the Federal Committee of the PCE since 2005<\/strong>\".<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>He was a delegate in Vigo of an organization controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba.<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The acronym PCE are those of the Communist Party of Spain. That biography also indicated that <strong>P\u00e9rez Correa was a delegate in Vigo of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL)<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resumenlatinoamericano.org\/2019\/06\/20\/cuba-tras-53-anos-de-solidaridad-con-los-pueblos-del-tercer-mundo-se-disuelve-la-ospaaal\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank \">an organization that was based in Havana and that was controlled by the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC)<\/a>, the sole party of the Cuban communist dictatorship, which was the one that ordered the dissolution of OSPAAAL four years ago. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resumenlatinoamericano.org\/2019\/06\/20\/cuba-tras-53-anos-de-solidaridad-con-los-pueblos-del-tercer-mundo-se-disuelve-la-ospaaal\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This is how the executive secretary of OSPAAAL announced its dissolution<\/a> on June 11, 2019:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"By means of this we fulfill the indication of informing you that <strong>the Communist Party of Cuba has adopted the decision to conclude the work of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL)<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>The new Secretary of State protects his social networks so that no one can read them<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, the same day that P\u00e9rez Correa is appointed Secretary of State (he will be number two of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/20\/the-communist-fanaticism-of-minister-sira-rego-and-the-response-that-a-vox-professor-gave-her\/\">the also communist Sira Rego, admirer of Lenin<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rubenperezEU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his Twitter account is protected<\/a> so that his posts cannot be read, the same thing happening on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ruben.perez.correa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his Instagram account<\/a>. Is it perhaps out of fear of what people might find in them? However, P\u00e9rez Correa has left some traces on the internet.<\/p>\n<p><big>His praise for the Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro<\/big><\/p>\n<p>For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/eslOd\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on his personal blog he published this photo on November 14, 2011<\/a>, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the PCE in Vigo. In it, <strong>P\u00e9rez Correa (second from the right) appears posing with his fist raised behind a communist flag<\/strong>, specifically the flag used by the Soviet Union (it was distinguished by the red star edged in yellow located above the hammer and sickle).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53349352814_67701f96c9_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In that same blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/FYDXh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">P\u00e9rez Correa wrote an article on November 21, 2011<\/a> in which he <strong>spoke about a visit of his to Cuba a few months earlier at the invitation of the Council of State of that dictatorship<\/strong>. In the article, P\u00e9rez Correa commented that in the Cuban town of Villa Clara <em>\"a leading comrade of the PCC in the town <strong>gave us a small notebook containing a text by Fidel<\/strong>\"<\/em>, in reference to the communist dictator Fidel Castro, establisher of the undemocratic regime that has plunged the Cuban people into oppression and misery since 1959.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9rez Correa added: <em>\"<strong>reading the small notebook I thought that those words would have to accompany me for the rest of my life<\/strong>. Since then that notebook has always been in my wallet... and it comforts me in hard times but it also makes me keep my feet on the ground in favorable times.\"<\/em> <strong>Will he take that notebook with Fidel Castro's text to the ministry?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>P\u00e9rez Correa participated in a march in support of the Cuban dictatorship<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This admiration for Fidel Castro is related to this photo published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euponteareas\/photos\/a.403111189344\/403116644344\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Facebook page of Esquerda Unida Ponteareas<\/a> on April 20, 2010, in which we see <strong>P\u00e9rez Correa with a PCG banner in a march in support of the Cuban communist dictatorship<\/strong> in Santiago de Compostela (it is the one that appears on the right).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53349479100_ae91da5d79_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On June 2, 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/euponteareas\/photos\/a.10150985804379345\/10150985818789345\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Esquerda's Facebook page Unida Ponteareas<\/a> published this photo of <strong>P\u00e9rez Correa at a public event of the Communist Youth<\/strong> in Ferrol. One year later, <a href=\"\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2013\/03\/31\/las-juventudes-del-pce-manifiestan-su-solidaridad-con-corea-del-norte\/\">that organization showed its \"solidarity with North Korea\"<\/a>, the most brutal and oppressive communist dictatorship in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53349352844_57ef9ea4a8_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><big>His photos at communist rallies with the current vice president Yolanda D\u00edaz<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On October 2, 2014, the PCG Twitter account published this photo of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PCGalicia\/status\/517610944827252736\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">P\u00e9rez Correa in a act of that communist organization<\/a>, accompanied by <strong>Yolanda D\u00edaz, current second vice president of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government<\/strong>, and Carlos Portome\u00f1e, member of the central committee of the PCG.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53349479075_2a0c8507b8_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On February 11, 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogdelviejotopo.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/tengamos-que-hablamos-del-pcg.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blog del Viejo Topo published this photo of P\u00e9rez Correa at a PCG event<\/a> (he is the one sitting on the right), <strong>accompanied by Yolanda D\u00edaz<\/strong>, <strong>Alberto Garz\u00f3n<\/strong> (until now Minister of Consumption) and <strong>Eva Solla<\/strong> (general secretary of the PCG).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53349348203_2150d59071_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same government that boasts of \"democratic memory\" includes well-known supporters of a totalitarian ideology who <strong>show admiration for tyrants like Lenin and Fidel Castro and support a communist dictatorship like the Cuban one<\/strong>. What kind of \"democratic government\" is this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has the only government in the European Union with communist ministers, to which must be added their subordinates.<\/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":[6238,20618,10444,20536,1062,8736,20619,1016,8263,9408,12638,7803],"class_list":["post-53973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-alberto-garzon","tag-carlos-portomene","tag-communism","tag-coup-against-the-rule-of-law-in-spain-2023","tag-izquierda-unida","tag-marea-de-vigo","tag-organizacion-de-solidaridad-de-los-pueblos-de-africa-asia-y-america-latina-ospaaal","tag-partido-comunista-de-espana-pce","tag-partido-comunista-de-galicia","tag-ruben-perez-correa","tag-sira-rego","tag-yolanda-diaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973"}],"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=53973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}