El descaro de Zapatero

El timing Zapatero’s statements are not accidental.

Maduro is in low custody while Delcy leads the country without looking away. Meanwhile, Zapatero spent days visiting radio and television studios in Spain to receive the medal of the greatest silent mediator who negotiated liberation and opened doors that could never be opened.

The socialist politician presents himself as a discreet liberator who worked among the dolls while the world looked the other way.

Just before this media offensive, he visited Caracas, where he only goes when he has something to negotiate or protect.

It is better to understand where the ex-president is talking. He is not a real partner at this point. In Washington, he is a person ungrateful: does not hold in accordance with Trumpbut I’ll keep it with you for now Biden.

Zapatero spent his time in a rather desperate search for some connection with the government that would give him meaning in Venezuela’s advantage in its global context.

He didn’t meet him.

The one I met was Delcy Rodríguez at the farm. And there’s the door I need.

There is another problem with strategy.

Above all, Trump does not tolerate any kind of protagonism. Zapatero marching Central Europeans, taking credit for the liberation of Venezuela’s political leaders and presenting himself as the articulator of a transition that Washington sees as its own, embodies exactly the kind of gestures that irritate the US president.

It is not an insignificant detail. It’s a real challenge for own operation, which Zapatero makes easier.

The “loyal but conflicted” question is a long one. Delcy Rodríguez was vice president while the Maduro police functioned unchecked and political leaders gathered in El Helicoide.

You cannot be loyal to this dictate and at the same time It was a moderate secret that prevented it from within. These two things are not part of the same biography.

And while Zapatero constructs this story, Delcy acts.

Since taking control, he has systematically exposed the officials most loyal to Nicolás Maduro: Alex Saab y na esposa Camilla Fabrifiscal general Tarek William Saabambassador to the UN Samuel Moncada and above all the almighty Minister of Defense Vladimir godfather López.

For someone who technically rules in an interim fashion, he acts exactly like the total boss of a new political movement.

It is noteworthy that Zapatero did not want to recognize the contradiction. No need to think about what your years of “mediation” really enabled, no adjustments to what helped you legitimize it.

Simply, he gives the rough paper to Maduro, tells Delcy the clean story, and introduces himself to the same person as the good that has kept humanitarian work silent all this time.

It is worth comparing with those who are at least honest and say what they saw. Gustavo Petroan ideological ally of Chavismo, has decided not to recognize Maduro’s victory in the 2024 elections in Brazil, publicly calling him “addicted to power”.

On your own excycler, Luis Gilberto Murilloit was even more direct. “It is clear that no election has been won if it should be declared by the President.”

Until the regional aliases of the Latin American country reach this point, the obvious question is why Zapatero follows without being able to say anything.

We may be really willing to play Delcy Rodriguez for what she’s up to here, but describing what happened to you is something else. You can look forward without pretending the past doesn’t exist.

There are heroes who never give up on recognition and few know better than Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez.

*** Francisco Poleo is a specialist analyst in Ibero-America and the United States.