{"id":63395,"date":"2026-02-11T21:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T20:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63395"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T16:58:40","slug":"iker-jimenez-and-the-honor-of-being-attacked-by-sanchez-an-immoral-and-authoritarian-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/11\/iker-jimenez-and-the-honor-of-being-attacked-by-sanchez-an-immoral-and-authoritarian-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Iker Jim\u00e9nez and the honor of being attacked by S\u00e1nchez, an immoral and authoritarian politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has a government besieged by corruption scandals and whose incompetence recently caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/08\/pedro-sanchezs-laughter-days-after-the-47-deaths-caused-by-his-mismanagement\/\">47 deaths in train accidents<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/11\/sanchezs-scandalous-spitting-on-the-graves-of-the-46-dead-of-adamuz\/\">S\u00e1nchez's scandalous spitting on the graves of the 46 dead of Adamuz<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/17\/pedro-sanchezs-gag-plan-imitates-francos-and-putins-measures-to-control-the-media\/\">Pedro Sanchez's 'Gag Plan' imitates Franco's and Putin's measures to control the media<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>To prevent criticism of his terrible management, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/05\/sanchez-threatens-spain-with-censorship-to-cover-up-the-47-train-deaths\/\">a few days ago S\u00e1nchez threatened to impose censorship on social media<\/a>, a maneuver with which his coalition government of socialists and communists anticipated by a week the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/visegrad24\/status\/2021619039936614452\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blocking of Telegram, Youtube and WhatsApp by the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin in Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the Spanish Socialist leader has shown he has followed the same authoritarian path as the Kremlin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/17\/pedro-sanchezs-gag-plan-imitates-francos-and-putins-measures-to-control-the-media\/\">Two years ago, S\u00e1nchez announced a gag order against the media that copied measures from Putin's dictatorship<\/a>, all amidst a wave of corruption scandals within his party, the PSOE. <b>The objective was clear: to silence journalists who publish things that are inconvenient for the government, just like in a dictatorship.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Since he currently lacks the necessary parliamentary majority to impose this authoritarian agenda, <strong>S\u00e1nchez uses his position and the Congress tribunal to target journalists he dislikes, an anti-democratic act<\/strong> with which the socialist leader demonstrates that among the things he dislikes about this democracy called Spain are freedom of expression and freedom of information.<\/p>\n<p>As I already mentioned this afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/11\/sanchezs-scandalous-spitting-on-the-graves-of-the-46-dead-of-adamuz\/\">in his disgraceful parliamentary interventions today, S\u00e1nchez attacked Iker Jim\u00e9nez, a journalist for the Cuatro channel<\/a>, where he hosts a current affairs program, \"Horizonte,\" which has a significant audience and is openly critical of the government. <strong>Here you can listen to the despicable words of the Socialist leader about Iker Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong> (the video is in Spanish but has an English audio track; you can activate it in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S\u00e1nchez se\u00f1ala a Iker Jim\u00e9nez: \u00abTiene audiencia, hay gente dispuesta a creer cualquier cosa\u00bb\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HbgYTGDsZSE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As we can see, <strong>S\u00e1nchez has dismissed Iker Jim\u00e9nez's reporting with terms like \"hate\" and \"fake news,\"<\/strong> but without explaining when this journalist has fueled hatred or lied. <strong>It is certainly a colossal display of cynicism that the most mendacious president in Spanish history dares to accuse someone of lying<\/strong>, an attitude known in psychology as \"projection,\" which consists of attributing one's own flaws to others.<\/p>\n<p>With those words, <strong>S\u00e1nchez is doing more than criticizing a journalist: he is pointing to a target to be silenced by the government.<\/strong> He has done so from the seat of national sovereignty and receiving the infamous applause of his party's members of parliament. I don't always agree with that journalist from Channel Four, but when a prime minister singles out an honest journalist like that, I too feel attacked, because <strong>what S\u00e1nchez is trying to do is not only discredit a journalist, but intimidate all journalists in Spain<\/strong> so they don't dare to do what Iker Jim\u00e9nez does: report on the government with a critical perspective. Therefore, I express my full support for Iker in the face of this intolerable attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S\u00e1nchez's display of authoritarianism against a journalist will ultimately generate a Streisand effect<\/strong>, which is what happens when someone tries to censor something because it bothers them and ends up giving it more notoriety. <strong>For Iker Jim\u00e9nez, it must be an honor to be singled out by an immoral and authoritarian politician like S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, because it shows that what he does bothers him, and being bothersome to such a despicable ruler is something that honors that journalist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those who should be ashamed are the journalists who act as the voice of their master and as mere propagandists for those in power<\/strong>, not only parroting government slogans on any political issue, but also contributing to their witch hunts against critical media outlets and journalists. <strong>Many of us Spaniards will not forget the attitude some are taking right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain has a government besieged by corruption scandals and whose incompetence recently caused 47 deaths in train accidents.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-63395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63395"}],"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=63395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}