Spain Is A Socialist Dictatorship

If Americans do not want to see their country become another nation drifting toward twenty-first-century socialism, the lesson is right before their eyes.

W. Galt | November 3, 2026

Pedro Sánchez used to present himself abroad as a modern social democrat, a European progressive committed to climate action, gender equality, and multilateralism. That image was carefully cultivated. The reality of his government in Spain is quite different: a systematic weakening of democratic checks and balances, alliances with parties that serve as the political arm of a terrorist organization, governing agreements with communists, parliamentary deals with separatist parties that have betrayed Spain, a foreign policy subservient to Morocco’s interests, and an increasingly authoritarian style of government resembling the institutional capture practiced by Chavista regimes in Latin America. What is at stake is not simply left-wing policy. It is the transformation of a constitutional democracy into a system in which the law is bent to ensure one man’s survival in power—a regime change from liberal democracy to Bolivarian dictatorship.

Years ago, I warned my fellow Spaniards that Sánchez was following the same iter criminis—the sequence of steps leading to a crime—that Hugo Chávez had followed in Venezuela. In my articles, I called him “Hugo Sánchez.” Spaniards who read my columns at latribunadelpaisvasco.com thought I was exaggerating. Today, they are horrified to see how accurate my predictions have proved to be.

Sánchez became secretary-general of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) through a primary election in which, I contend, he committed fraud. Once he had secured control of his party, he reached La Moncloa, the Spanish prime minister’s official residence, in 2018 through a vote of no confidence based on falsehoods. Once in power, he could have chosen a coalition with a centrist party or with a communist party. He chose the communists and the political arm of a terrorist organization as his partners.

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