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# Carlos Souto

Political Consultant - International

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- [Football and Big Brother: Javier and Pedro, Both in the Final](https://souto.com/football-and-big-brother-javier-and-pedro-both-in-the-final/) - Spain and Argentina have delivered superb performances in their respective continental challenges. Spain must defeat England to be champion; Argentina must overcome Colombia. If both were to triumph — as I sincerely hope — they would meet thereafter in what could be called the Super Cup — or something like that — for the most
- [If Argentine Politics Were an Amusement Park: Milei, the Caste, and the Dangerous Game of Power](https://souto.com/if-argentine-politics-were-an-amusement-park-milei-the-caste-and-the-dangerous-game-of-power/) - If the world were an amusement park, politicians would spend all their time in bumper cars. There’s nothing else for them. In that arena they have fun: they’re experts at it, they gently bounce off each other so as not to crash too hard, cushioning the danger with maneuvers to the left or right —
- [Every Time I Return to Argentina — A Crisis](https://souto.com/every-time-i-return-to-argentina-a-crisis/) - I am Spanish and Argentine, involuntarily, emotionally, and professionally exiled — and a weekly columnist for a Spanish newspaper called Vozpópuli. I write every Thursday analysing European politics and its surroundings. I do not write for Argentines; that would make no sense. They’ve already seen the movie and read the book. Because what is happening in
- [Pedro Sánchez’s Spanish Tango](https://souto.com/pedro-sanchezs-spanish-tango/) - With the tacit permission of my dear readers, as you are reading these lines this Thursday I will already be in Buenos Aires. From this city — where I was born to Spanish parents — I can see both countries reflected in the same mirror. One lags behind, the other lies ahead in time —
- [Pinned with Pins, Bound with Wire](https://souto.com/pinned-with-pins-bound-with-wire/) - The coalition that keeps Pedro Sánchez in power today resembles a haphazard contraption more than a stable government — pinned together with makeshift safety pins and bound with wire, functional only as long as it serves its purpose. Fragile. Improvised. Barely holding on. That, in a nutshell, is the reality of Sánchez’s ties to his most
- [The Short Fuse](https://souto.com/the-short-fuse/) - When you read this column, there’s a good chance I will already be in an Uber on the way to Barajas Airport again, Buenos Aires in my sights. It will be yet another crossing of the Atlantic — but not just another. In Argentina, 2025 is an election year, and what happens in the legislative
- [Unarmed and Adrift](https://souto.com/unarmed-and-adrift/) - Civilizations do not vanish because they are killed; they die by suicide. That’s the stark lesson of history — and, more or less unwittingly, the lens through which we must view Spain today. While Europe reshapes itself between the old and the new, our country lingers in a tragicomic loop of contradictions. Spain dispatches delegates
- [The Pain of No Longer Being](https://souto.com/the-pain-of-no-longer-being/) - In my youth I spent four years living in Brazil. My roommate at the time was a Catalan named Xavier Ruaix Duran — a redhead with manners so impeccable he became, to me, the very definition of respect, courtesy, and the ability to integrate into a culture utterly unlike one’s own. He would tell me
- [Europe in the Cabaret](https://souto.com/europe-in-the-cabaret/) - Europe today has an existential problem: continue depending on the United States or learn to fend for itself. One of the enduring images of tango comes from Enrique Santos Discépolo’s Esta noche me emborracho, immortalised in the voice of Carlos Gardel: “Alone, faded, and worn, I saw you leave the cabaret early this morning…” That line serves perfectly
- [“He Restores Order”: Milei, and a Few Reasons to Keep Backing the President](https://souto.com/he-restores-order-milei-and-a-few-reasons-to-keep-backing-the-president/) - Javier Milei did not arrive in government to be liked. He arrived to restore order. And that distinction, uncomfortable as it may be, is essential to understanding both his political role and the reaction he provokes. In Argentina, order has long been a taboo word — associated with authoritarianism, repression, or conservative nostalgia. Yet the absence
- [The Great Escapist of La Moncloa](https://souto.com/the-great-escapist-of-la-moncloa/) - Spain’s political show has always had its share of spectacle, but never before has its leading figure seemed quite so adept at the art of disappearance. Pedro Sánchez, at a time when Europe is grappling with economic duress and diplomatic crosswinds, has perfected a curious style of leadership: where the storm gathers, he boards a plane.
- [The Snake’s Egg](https://souto.com/the-snakes-egg/) - Spanish commentators often insist that the country’s left is hopelessly fractured. But that diagnosis — pitting factions against one another like gladiators in a coliseum — misses the real fracture. The divide isn’t tactical, emotional, or generational. It’s structural and moral. What emerged after the financial crisis as a hopeful renewal of politics — animated by
- [Take the Balcony Away from Cristina](https://souto.com/take-the-balcony-away-from-cristina/) - In 1996, Ecuador witnessed one of the most memorable political spectacles of the 20th century. Abdala Bucaram, a politician as unpredictable as his nickname (El Loco, “The Madman”) suggested, was on the verge of becoming president with over 54 percent of the vote. His reign lasted a mere five months and twenty-seven days before he was
- [Fly-Away Manual for a Shooting Star](https://souto.com/fly-away-manual-for-a-shooting-star/) - Pedro Sánchez’s star — once brightly shining among the European progressive constellations — now appears caught in an irreversible spiral, drawn inexorably toward a political black hole. Like matter consumed by cosmic gravity, Sánchez and large swaths of the PSOE are being pulled into what will become a dark chapter in their history. The government
- [Wednesday Mafias: Pensioners as a Shield for Organized Violence](https://souto.com/wednesday-mafias-pensioners-as-a-shield-for-organized-violence/) - For decades, Argentine public debate has had a predictable weekly rhythm: every Wednesday, a new scandal breaks, a new complaint erupts, a fresh accusation lands, and we dutifully gather around our screens, outraged, dismayed, incensed — and then we move on as if nothing ever happened. Wednesday has become a kind of ritual of indignation, a
- [Zapatero and the Bolivarian Copyright](https://souto.com/zapatero-and-the-bolivarian-copyright/) - When all substantive political arguments have run dry — when governance no longer inspires confidence, and there’s nothing left but slogans — what remains is copycat politics. That’s the unmistakable message in a recent intervention by former Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who revived a phrase long worn thin across Latin America: “Love conquers hate.” Zapatero
- [It’s Raining Pedro Sánchez](https://souto.com/its-raining-pedro-sanchez/) - Spain is going through a moment both absurd and deeply symbolic: torrential rain pouring down, but the people remain dry. And no, this is not about a weather event like a Dana — the catastrophic storm that floods entire regions while the government watches with apathy. Rather, this is a different kind of downpour: it’s raining Pedro Sánchez. In this
- [“A Convicted Balcony” for Cristina](https://souto.com/a-convicted-balcony-for-cristina/) - In 1996 in Ecuador, a striking political scene unfolded that I have never forgotten. Abdala Bucaram — a figure impossible to classify — was about to win the presidency with more than 54 % of the vote in the runoff, an impressive figure against Jaime Nebot, who never ran for president again after that defeat. Bucaram’s
- [Pedro and the Helium Balloons](https://souto.com/pedro-and-the-helium-balloons/) - In April 2008, a Brazilian priest named Adelir Antonio de Carli tied himself to a thousand colorful helium balloons. His aim was to set a record and raise funds for a noble cause. He partly succeeded: he ascended over 6,000 meters but drifted out over the open ocean, and his body was found floating weeks
- [Too Many Red Buttons](https://souto.com/too-many-red-buttons/) - There used to be just two red buttons in the world. During the Cold War, one sat between the White House and the Pentagon; the other was in the Kremlin. That was it — a terrifying simplicity. Today, there are far too many. A single mistake, a stray spark, or a trembling finger might be
- [Sánchez No Longer Governs](https://souto.com/sanchez-no-longer-governs/) - Pedro Sánchez remains formally Spain’s prime minister — with a full cabinet, a legion of advisors, and daily appearances from the presidential podium at La Moncloa. But to govern? That he no longer does. He doesn’t lack title; he lacks effect. What he now does is defend himself, dig in, and vanish behind evasive legal strategies, press
- [Spain in Waterfall Mode](https://souto.com/spain-in-waterfall-mode/) - It’s simple: the torrent of corruption allegations engulfing the Socialist Party is no longer news — it’s geography. Not the Niagara Falls, not the Iguazú, not even the world’s tallest cataracts like Tugela can match the deluge of scandals spilling over Pedro Sánchez’s government on a daily basis. Sánchez has become the irreplaceable witness to his
- [The Spanish Rubicon](https://souto.com/the-spanish-rubicon/) - From this columnist’s humble vantage point, Spain has crossed its Rubicon — not through a dramatic revolution but via a slow erosion of its institutions that has now morphed into a brazen transformation of its democratic system into something darker and structurally different. What began as a gradual weakening of norms and restraint has reached the point
- [From the AVE to the Abyss](https://souto.com/from-the-ave-to-the-abyss/) - What has happened to Spain? How did the country so recently synonymous with exemplary public healthcare, efficient high-speed trains, and democratic stability become so disfigured in such a short span of time? When did we start to resemble less a model to be emulated and more a cautionary tale? For years, Spain was seen as
- [Cristina, the First Convicted](https://souto.com/cristina-the-first-convicted/) - Across the Atlantic, something extraordinary has happened — at least extraordinary by the grueling standards of Latin American politics: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former president of Argentina, has finally been convicted. Not ceremonially, not symbolically, but in a court of law confirmed by the highest tribunal. That alone is a seismic moment in a political culture
- [The Summer Match](https://souto.com/the-summer-match/) - This summer’s political spectacle in Spain hasn’t been about siestas and seaside sangría; it’s been about a match — the Summer Match — being played across the nation’s institutional field. In a year when the usual ritual of beaches, tourist circuits, and collective political disengagement was supposed to unfold, something entirely different took shape: Spain’s political life itself
- [August: Spain in Airplane Mode](https://souto.com/august-spain-in-airplane-mode/) - In Spain, August is not merely a month on the calendar — and this is no metaphor — it is a national suspension of time. For thirty-one days straight, the country seems to enter a different dimension: bureaucracy slows to a crawl, life drifts aimlessly, and the public sphere becomes insubstantial, almost gaseous. “Johnny and his
- [From the Five Latin Americans to Menudo](https://souto.com/from-the-five-latin-americans-to-menudo/) - Spain is experiencing one of its most symbolically tragic moments since the return of democracy — not because of war, catastrophe, or institutional collapse, but because a single image has distilled an entire era’s decline. A photograph taken this week shows Pedro Sánchez smiling alongside four Latin American leaders, an ensemble that conveys something far more
- [Every Day Is Worth Its Weight in Gold](https://souto.com/every-day-is-worth-its-weight-in-gold/) - One of the most banal frustrations of political life is the recycling of the same errors, as if history were a scratched record playing on loop. Spain seems to suffer from this with particular intensity. A discerning historian once reminded me of Ortega y Gasset’s famous axiom: “Pueblos que olvidan su historia están condenados a repetirla” —
- [Today You’ll Read Here Neither Pedro Nor Sánchez](https://souto.com/today-youll-read-here-neither-pedro-nor-sanchez/) - As with Voldemort or a certain ex-footballer who flew off to Saudi Arabia for a mountain of petrodollars, everyone knows exactly whom we’re talking about. He’s still there. Clinging to the armchair with the same desperation as a wet cat hanging on to a curtain — except now, there is no curtain to cling to anymore.
- [Spain in Flames, Little Pedro in Flip-Flops](https://souto.com/spain-in-flames-little-pedro-in-flip-flops/) - Spain this summer has been not just hot — it has been literally on fire. Forest blazes have ravaged communities from Orense to Zamora, forcing thousands to evacuate, shutting roads, claiming lives, and suffocating entire regions under thick smoke. These are not seasonal anecdotes; they are the cartography of a nation at red heat. Meanwhile, the country’s
- [Sánchez, the Absent Firefighter](https://souto.com/sanchez-the-absent-firefighter/) - Spain is burning — both literally and metaphorically — and the figure who should be at the front of the line appears to have gone missing. Forest fires have devastated swathes of the country this summer, displacing families, destroying forests and homes, and overwhelming emergency services. Yet rather than showing up as a crisis leader, Pedro
- [The Snake’s Egg in the State](https://souto.com/the-snakes-egg-in-the-state/) - I write these lines from Buenos Aires, in the heart of the southern hemisphere’s winter — a place where the state still functions at its most elemental level, even amid profound challenges. What I see here illustrates a reality that should alarm Spaniards too: when autocratic-leaning models of power hold sway for too long, institutions don’t
- [The Torture of the Chinese Drop](https://souto.com/the-torture-of-the-chinese-drop/) - Spain today doesn’t suffer from a single dramatic crisis so much as it endures an unceasing drip of daily political erosion — a slow, corrosive strain of scandals, leaks, half-truths, and institutional degradation that chips away at public confidence one drop at a time. In this commentary, the author adopts the metaphor of “the torture of the Chinese
- [Milei and the Festival of Unforced Errors](https://souto.com/milei-and-the-festival-of-unforced-errors/) - There was a time, not long ago, when Argentina’s political experiment with Javier Milei felt like a bold gamble — an insurgent libertarian thrust into the heart of a crisis-ridden state, promising radical reform and a break with decades of stagnation and corruption. That promise captivated some, alarmed others, but most of all it created an
- [Sánchez, in Decomposition](https://souto.com/sanchez-in-decomposition/) - Pedro Sánchez’s political condition no longer resembles a functioning leadership — it looks like something structurally breaking down. In Sánchez, en descomposición, the columnist uses an extended chemical metaphor to capture the spectacle of a government and party in accelerated decline: the “periodic table of Sanchism” is entering its final phase. Gone are the solidity and political cohesion
- [Milei Buries the Mafia of Cristina Kirchner](https://souto.com/milei-buries-the-mafia-of-cristina-kirchner/) - In a political earthquake that few saw coming, Argentines delivered a verdict this October that doesn’t just reflect a midterm result — it marks a symbolic end to an era. What was defeated at the polls wasn’t merely a party or a platform, the author argues, but “a criminal organisation disguised as a political movement.” In no uncertain
- [Let’s Step Out of the Mistake](https://souto.com/lets-step-out-of-the-mistake/) - Spain’s political drama has reached the point where the opposition’s errors are as consequential as the government’s missteps — perhaps more so, because they reflect not just tactical misjudgment, but a failure of strategic imagination. In Salgamos del error, the author uses the metaphor of a classic Cuban bolero — one in which the singer laments having abandoned a
- [“Cambalache” in the 21st Century: Why the Election Campaign Has Become a Tango That Makes You Want to Cry](https://souto.com/cambalache-in-the-21st-century-why-the-election-campaign-has-become-a-tango-that-makes-you-want-to-cry/) - Enrique Santos Discépolo, unwittingly perhaps Argentina’s first political analyst, could not have predicted that in the 21st century the “cambalache” — his bitter, timeless tango about chaos and moral decay — would stop being merely ideological and become algorithmic. That politics itself would be swallowed by simulation, with politicians reduced to bit players in their own
- [Alberto, If You Keep This Up, We’re Screwed](https://souto.com/alberto-if-you-keep-this-up-were-screwed/) - This column is written from one corner of the political spectrum — the right — not as an act of partisanship, but as a sober warning about a moment of strategic drift that threatens to leave Spain leaderless in purpose, directionless in opposition, and ultimately worse off for it. Alberto Núñez Feijóo is a serious, cultured,
- [The Three Madwomen’s Flotilla](https://souto.com/the-three-madwomens-flotilla/) - Spain’s political seas have never been calmer — and yet, across those deceptively smooth waters, a curious little flotilla has formed: three distinct vessels, each helmed by unpredictable captains, drifting not toward consensus or national purpose, but toward spectacle, contradiction, and strategic confusion. Together, they reveal a deeper reality: Spain’s political centre is not dead —
- [The New Tercios of Spain](https://souto.com/the-new-tercios-of-spain/) - Spain is sliding into a tripartite political trap — a fragmentation so deep it threatens not just governance but the very possibility of political alternation. Today’s political landscape is not dominated by a traditional left-right duel, nor by a vibrant multi-party negotiation. Instead, it resembles a country cleaved into three hostile thirds: a bloc content with the current
- [Spain in Crisis](https://souto.com/spain-in-crisis/) - Spain is no longer flirting with crisis — it is living inside it. Not as a sudden collapse or a single dramatic event, but as a slow-burn deterioration that seeps into institutions, public discourse, and everyday civic life. This is not a cyclical downturn or a passing political storm. It is a structural crisis, one that affects
- [Spain at War](https://souto.com/spain-at-war/) - Spain is at war — not with an enemy at its borders, not with guns and tanks and uniforms — but with itself. The conflict is internal, psychological, cultural, institutional, and above all political. It is a war in which everywhere appears to be the battlefield and nowhere the command post. This is not a metaphor lightly
- [The Stolen Wallet](https://souto.com/the-stolen-wallet/) - Long before the pandemic, I was on a media tour across the United States warning — wherever I could — about the rising tide of Latin American populism then gaining strength in governments that still wore the veneer of democracy. It was not a phenomenon I had discovered casually; I’d followed it for years. In
- [The Song Is Always the Same](https://souto.com/the-song-is-always-the-same/) - Spain is awash with noise — but the melody never changes. No matter how often the rhythms shift or the chorus is rearranged, the lyrics remain eerily familiar: the same cast of characters, the same scandals, the same cyclical spectacle that seems to have become the nation’s default soundtrack. On any given day, it’s “Cerdán and
- [The Nuclear Fission of Spanish Society](https://souto.com/the-nuclear-fission-of-spanish-society/) - Spain is no longer merely divided — it is undergoing something akin to social nuclear fission: a process in which the constant bombardment of political stimuli fractures cohesion until the whole becomes unstable. In nuclear physics, fission describes how a heavy atom splits into smaller parts after repeated impacts, releasing energy chaotically; here, the columnist argues,
- [The Sanchism Denture](https://souto.com/the-sanchism-denture/) - When the press opens and every headline seems dominated by corruption — “bite,” “bite here,” “bite there” — it’s hard not to feel as if Spain has turned into a safari where the only thing still standing is the bite itself. The columnist seizes on a vivid metaphor: the idea that Spanish public life has become dominated by mordidas —
- [The Last Letter of the PSOE](https://souto.com/the-last-letter-of-the-psoe/) - In this column, the author warns that Spain’s democratic decay has passed a critical milestone: it no longer begins with economic hardship or headline scandals, but with the loss of public decency and political shame. What was once unthinkable has become routine in the Spanish political arena — gestures and spectacles that mock solemnity rather than
- [The Problem Is Not Sánchez, It’s Us](https://souto.com/the-problem-is-not-sanchez-its-us/) - Spain is no longer merely wrestling with a political issue — it is confronting a deep social crisis, one that outstrips scandal and enters the realm of collective consciousness and civic perception. What the columnist calls a crisis “of collective awareness, perception, and civic intelligence” suggests that Spaniards have become **as much a part of the
- [Political Indigestion](https://souto.com/political-indigestion/) - Spain’s political theatre has become less a narrative arc and more a smorgasbord of scandals served all at once — an avalanche of controversies, allegations, and institutional embarrassments that no citizen can process logically or morally. The column argues that this is not an accidental overload, but a functional strategy: by piling on one scandal after another, the
- [Venezuela After the Tumor](https://souto.com/venezuela-after-the-tumor/) - Barely a few hours have passed since the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, and millions of words have already been written — some euphoric, some indignant, many plainly foolish. The world seems split between Venezuelans waving flags with one less star — the one Chávez added when he attacked national symbols as befits a 21st-century socialist
- [2026: The Year When Everyone Slows Down — Except One](https://souto.com/2026-the-year-when-everyone-slows-down-except-one/) - Son las cinco de la mañana del primer día del año. If you’re reading this now — or shortly after — it’s likely not because a sudden political awakening seized you, but because the phone inertia and a hangover nudged you awake. This column isn’t meant for deep reflection or waking epiphanies. It is, at
- [Another Pyrrhic Victory for the PP](https://souto.com/another-pyrrhic-victory-for-the-pp/) - The People’s Party (PP) appears stuck in a troubling pattern: celebrating tactical wins that mean little when measured against the broader arc of national politics. In Otra victoria pírrica del PP, the author argues that the party’s recent success in the Extremadura regional election — hailed at Génova as evidence of resurging momentum — was instead a strategic misstep with long-term costs
- [Chile Wakes Up Before Spain](https://souto.com/chile-wakes-up-before-spain/) - While Spain sleeps, Chile has already woken up — and its voters have delivered a verdict that the author of this column views as a stark lesson for European politics. In Chile’s recent presidential election, the right-wing candidate José Antonio Kast secured a resounding 60-40 victory, not because of simple charisma or a technical victory, but because he
- [Chile, Argentina and the Fatigue of an Era](https://souto.com/chile-argentina-and-the-fatigue-of-an-era/) - The recent presidential election in Chile was not, as many hurried to frame it, a message to the world or a manifesto for the region. It was something far more elemental: a domestic reckoning, the political expression of a society that had reached the limits of patience. What Chile closed was not a cycle of government, but an era
- [Europe Works Better at the Extremes](https://souto.com/europe-works-better-at-the-extremes/) - Europe has entered a paradoxical phase: the more it tries to govern from the centre, the worse it functions; the more it is pushed toward the extremes, the more clearly it reacts. This is not an ideological endorsement of radicalism, but an empirical observation drawn from the continent’s recent political behaviour. When Europe drifts into technocratic
- [Never — But Never — Count Peronism Out](https://souto.com/never-but-never-count-peronism-out/) - In Argentina there is a national sport: announcing that Peronism is dead. It’s been declared deceased in the 1950s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s — and yet again today. It always unfolds the same way: trumpets blare, obituaries are drafted, and pundits jubilate at the demise of the movement that has outlasted every eulogy
- [2026: The Year of the Himalaya](https://souto.com/2026-the-year-of-the-himalaya/) - According to the Chinese zodiac, 2026 is the Year of the Horse — a sign associated with energy, forward motion, and momentum. Yet if the first eight days of the year are any indication, that horse did not enter the arena trotting with elegance; it galloped in wild and unbridled, riderless and without brakes. More than
- [Aragón: Another “Joy” for the PSOE](https://souto.com/aragon-another-joy-for-the-psoe/) - “Another joy for the PSOE.” The expression, once associated with genuine political triumph, is now used with unmistakable irony. What is unfolding in Aragón, the column argues, closely mirrors what already happened in Extremadura: a defeat that looks serious on paper but is politically harmless in practice. The PSOE loses ground, yes — but not power,
- [Spain Crashes While Portugal Awakens](https://souto.com/spain-crashes-while-portugal-awakens/) - Portugal voted last Sunday. And it was not just another election. It was the first truly European election of 2026. Not because of its demographic weight, but because it revealed something that is becoming increasingly rare on the continent: an electorate willing to cross lines. For the first time since 1986, Portugal is headed for
- [The Seven Plagues of Spain](https://souto.com/the-seven-plagues-of-spain/) - The biblical account in Psalm 78 tells that Egypt—proud and seemingly impregnable—did not experience its worst nightmare because of a foreign invasion or a military defeat, but because of something far more unsettling: a succession of seven plagues (rather than the ten described in Exodus). It was not an isolated misfortune; it was a chain
- [The Cunning of Sánchez and the Awakening of Feijóo](https://souto.com/the-cunning-of-sanchez-and-the-awakening-of-feijoo/) - Pedro Sánchez understood something before anyone else did: elections are not won only with votes. They are won with timing. And he acted accordingly. He scheduled the election in the middle of the summer, at the worst possible moment for his opponent, knowing that the Popular Party was euphoric after the regional victories. They had
- [The Disappointed Spain](https://souto.com/the-disappointed-spain/) - Spanish society is not asking for more radicalism; it is asking for coherence. It is not asking for more noise; it is asking for direction. It is true that on the right there have been figures who promised something different. There was no shortage of emerging profiles that awakened expectations. But many exited quietly. Some
- [Argentina After the Chainsaw: From Shock to Stability](https://souto.com/argentina-after-the-chainsaw-from-shock-to-stability/) - Argentina did something that few anticipated: it accepted surgery without anesthesia. Tariffs brought into line with reality, prices liberalized, subsidies cut, competitive imports opened up, and so on. The State exposed in its real size, without accounting make-up or rhetorical anesthesia. What for years had been a fiscal fiction sustained by money printing was laid
- [The Gospel According to Pedro](https://souto.com/the-gospel-according-to-pedro/) - “Sanchismo has ceased to be a tactic and has become a catechism.”“Sanchismo has ceased to be a tactic and has become a catechism.”It was Moses who descended from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the law, not Saint Peter who wrote them. The first received the commandments; the second guarded the keys to the Kingdom.
- [Pedro, It’s Time for Your Morning Briefing](https://souto.com/pedro-its-time-for-your-morning-briefing/) - While Yolanda Díaz announces that she will not be a candidate—before anyone has even finished asking her to be—Gabriel Rufián rehearses speeches as the heir with renewed enthusiasm. One retreats. The other advances. Both reveal the same thing: the space to the left of the PSOE is today a territory in search of meaning. Not
- [The Dead Cat Bounce](https://souto.com/the-dead-cat-bounce/) - When a government enters a phase of accelerated wear and tear, it sometimes tries to produce a sudden movement that alters the political climate.When a government enters a phase of accelerated wear and tear, it sometimes tries to produce a sudden movement that alters the political climate.In Spain there is currently a genuine saturation of
- [The Return of Obscurantism](https://souto.com/the-return-of-obscurantism/) - Whoever questions certain policies is not simply a critic: he is reactionary, a denialist, an extremist, or something similar.Whoever questions certain policies is not simply a critic: he is reactionary, a denialist, an extremist, or something similar.There are words that history wears down through rhetorical overuse. Obscurantism is one of them. For decades it was used to

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