{"id":62770,"date":"2026-01-08T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=62770"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:23:08","slug":"repugnant-xenophobia-against-venezuelan-refugees-from-the-leftist-channel-la-sexta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/08\/repugnant-xenophobia-against-venezuelan-refugees-from-the-leftist-channel-la-sexta\/","title":{"rendered":"Repugnant xenophobia against Venezuelan refugees from the leftist channel La Sexta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the Spanish left is suffering a major attack of hysteria following the capture of dictator and drug trafficker Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/04\/its-reaction-to-maduros-capture-recalls-the-kinship-between-the-left-and-fascism\/\">Its reaction to Maduro's capture recalls the kinship between the left and fascism<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/03\/the-fall-of-dictator-nicolas-maduro-unleashes-hysteria-in-the-spanish-extreme-left\/\">The fall of dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro unleashes hysteria in the Spanish extreme left<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The fact that Venezuelan citizens exiled in Spain have celebrated the fall of the dictator has infuriated some far-left activists, including <strong>Antonio Maestre, a contributor to the La Sexta channel<\/strong>. Yesterday, the website of that media outlet published <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sextaNoticias\/status\/2008871240480465100\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an infamous article by Maestre<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260108072602\/https:\/\/www.lasexta.com\/el-muro\/antonio-maestre\/gusanera-fascista-venezolana-espana_20260107695e370522f0db7daf079713.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with serious insults against Venezuelan refugees in Spain<\/a>, whom this lunatic calls <strong>\"idiotsassholes, \"fascist worms\", \"ungrateful scum\", \"gang of fascists\" and \"anti-democratic fifth column\"<\/strong> for the mere fact that he did not like the opinions of some of them <em>\"while <strong>they celebrated the kidnapping of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro by American imperialism<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This isn't the first time that guy has written things like this. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AntonioMaestre\/status\/1056874609541349377\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In 2018, he replied to a Venezuelan saying<\/a>: <em>\"<strong>I hope Venezuelans are denied asylum and deported<\/strong>,\"<\/em> simply because that Venezuelan encouraged him to move to his country to see the effects of the Maduro dictatorship's socialist policies. In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AntonioMaestre\/status\/1832694177836023991\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maestre rejected the idea of \u200b\u200bgranting asylum in Spain to Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>, the winner of the Venezuelan elections, stating: <em>\"<strong>Giving asylum to Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia is legitimizing the worst of the international far right<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish left has spent years accusing anyone who criticizes illegal immigration of \"xenophobia,\" and now it openly displays <strong>clear xenophobia against citizens who have had to flee a socialist dictatorship<\/strong>, simply because that dictatorship has the blessings of a large part of the Spanish left.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Maestre's repugnant article, one has to wonder: <strong>Will the Public Prosecutor's Office act on its own initiative against this guy?<\/strong> We've already seen the Public Prosecutor's Office act on its own initiative in other cases simply to prosecute messages against illegal immigration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elconfidencial.com\/espana\/madrid\/2021-04-20\/fiscalia-vox-delito-odio-cartel-electoral-menas_3042735\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as happened in Madrid against a Vox poster in 2021<\/a>, a poster that didn't contain any insults. Not acting now would send the message that <strong>if you're on the left, you have free rein to insult refugees of a certain nationality, simply because you don't like a socialist dictatorship<\/strong> that has been murdering, torturing, raping, and robbing the Venezuelan people for years. And all this, of course, with the blessing of the Spanish left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The article about Maestre is yet another example that there is nothing more like a fascist than a left-wing fanatic<\/strong>. The far left shares many ideological vices with the fascism it claims to hate: authoritarianism, support for dictatorships, antisemitism, intolerance of differing opinions, a penchant for censorship, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/16\/provocative-journalism-the-left-wing-is-getting-sick-with-its-own-syrup\/\">the use of violence<\/a>, and now also xenophobia. Once again, it is clear that <strong>fascism and the far left are not enemies: they are competitors<\/strong> striving to demonstrate which of the two is capable of sinking lower in its contempt for freedom and democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the Spanish left is suffering a major attack of hysteria following the capture of dictator and drug trafficker Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/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":[10720],"tags":[10958,10497,210,6548,159,24801],"class_list":["post-62770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-antonio-maestre","tag-far-left","tag-la-sexta","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-venezuela","tag-xenophobia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 21:13:00","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\/62770","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=62770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}