The Madrid PSOE has decided to shoot itself in the foot. Their reaction to the video of a Cuban in Miami excitedly greeting Isabel Díaz Ayuso was not only arrogant and clumsy, but also revealed, once again, the hypocrisy and selective blindness of a party that prefers to see ghosts on the right rather than dictatorships on the left.
The woman, identified as Norma, greeted the president of Madrid with enthusiasm and, in tears, posed a direct question: "When are you going to remove Pedro Sánchez from power?" It was not a staged scene or a party slogan; it was the genuine cry of an emigrant who knows firsthand the effects of a government that is advancing toward authoritarianism disguised as progressivism.
What does the Madrid PSOE do? They respond with disdain, saying that in Spain women retire with dignity and do not fear getting sick. What PSOE refuses to see is that this woman did not flee from Madrid to Miami. She fled from Havana. And she didn’t do it because she liked the air conditioning at Dolphin Mall, but because the Cuban communism, which they coddle and tolerate, expelled her from her own land.
Where is the dignity of Cuban elders who do not have a decent pension, cannot adequately feed themselves, nor access medical services or medications? The problem is not Miami. The problem is Cuba. And every time a Spanish socialist downplays that reality, they whitewash a dictatorship and trample on the testimony of those who have suffered under it.
The comparison, therefore, is not Miami vs. Madrid. It is Havana vs. Madrid. What Norma saw in Ayuso was not a rock star, but an antidote. And what she sees in Pedro Sánchez, many of us also see: a slow but steady path toward the Cubanization of power, where dissent is criminalized and the state becomes the owner of our lives: more control, more propaganda, less freedom.
The PSOE should stop mocking those who escaped from a hell. And start asking themselves why so many Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans see in their political project a reflection of what they vowed never to experience again.
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