Spanish MEP Miguel Urbán considers that the Government of Argentina, headed by the ultraliberal Javier Milei, and other far-right-wing Executives of the world seek to question the policies of historical memory so that the flame of the struggle of the present cannot be ignited in the reading of the past.”
“It is a common feature and a deliberate attack on what the democratic foundations would be,” says in an interview with EFE in Buenos Aires, this member of the European Parliament since 2015, a central figure of the Anti-Capitalist political organization – which was integrated into Podemos from its foundation until 2020 -, and author of the essay ‘Trumpisms’.
Urbán, son of a communist militant tortured during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) by the policeman Antonio González Pacheco, better known as ‘Billy el Niño’, is in the Argentine capital to, among other reasons, accompany other victims grouped under the so-called ‘Argentine complaint’ against the crimes of the Franco regime.
In addition, this Sunday he will participate in the mobilization that will take place in Buenos Aires within the framework of March 24, Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, in which the victims of the last Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) are commemorated, on the anniversary of the coup d’état that overthreuched the democratic powers of the South American country.
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The Government of Milei – and particularly the vice president, Victoria Villarruel, with family ties with the military and accused of ‘denialism’ of the crimes of the dictatorship by associations that defend human rights in Argentina – has been equidistant with this symbolic day.
“Obviously we are witnessing a questioning of memory as a questioning of democracy,” says Urbán, who considers that this type of policy is the same as those used by other far-right leaders in the world, such as the Portuguese André Ventura, leader of the Chega! party, or the Spanish Santiago Abascal, president of Vox.
Urbán attributes this trend to the “element of the cultural battle”, usually argued by reactionary leaders to position himself “against the ‘cowardly right’ that does not question the ‘progressive dictatorship’.”
The MEP thinks that Milei is nothing more than “the Argentine decline of this global reactionary wave” that he describes in his latest book and that he presented this Friday in Buenos Aires.
“These phenomena start from eating the political space of the international right (…) Milei could not have been president if he had not managed to get the right to prefer to support him rather than a ‘right-wing uncle’ like Sergio Massa (the presidential candidate of Peronism in the 2023 elections),” says the MEP.
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Urbán considers that “the same radicalization” motivated prominent conservative leaders – among them, the former president of the Spanish Government Mariano Rajoy (2011-2018) – to ask for the vote for the far-right Milei in the last Argentine elections.
“(The phenomenon of the extreme right) is not a European measles,” warns Urbán, who calls the importance of the communication skills of far-right leaders or issues such as the rise of disinformation “peripheral”.
“We could not understand this global reactionary wave without understanding that we are facing a real crisis of the regime of capitalism; a crisis resulting from the combination of the neoliberal governance crisis (…) and, on the other hand, the ecological crisis and climate change that constitute a kind of ‘cancellation of the future’,” explains Urbán.
Faced with the anxiety of the present, the MEP, who participated in the 15-M movement (or ‘of the indignadomen’) in Spain in 2011, believes that the extreme right proposes an imaginary of the past “known and that gives assurances.”
“It’s a matter of passion and not of reason,” says Urbán.
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In this sense, the MEP believes that Milei’s ultra-liberal positions are more difficult to “inoculate” than those of the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, characterized by his harshness in police action against the violent gangs of the Central American country.
A court orders the arrest of the Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture accused of corruption
The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine issued a preventive arrest warrant on Friday against the Minister of Agriculture, Mikola Solski, accused of being part of a plot that would have illegally appropriated about 2,500 hectares of land that belonged to the State before his arrival at the Ministry.
According to Ukrainian media, the court has issued a sixty-day arrest warrant, which Solski can avoid if he pays a bail of 75.7 million gryvnas (1.78 million euros at the current exchange rate).
Solski presented his resignation on Thursday – which must now be accepted by the Ukrainian Parliament – after being accused this week by the Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine (NABU) of participating in a transfer of publicly owned land valued at 291 million gryvnas (about 7 million euros).
In addition, the organization investigates the still minister for trying to transfer another lot of land in an equally criminal way, valued at 190 million gryvnas (4.5 million euros).
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The events occurred, according to the Anti-Corruption Office, between 2017 and 2021.
From 2019 to 2021, Solski was president of the Committee on Agriculture and Land Policy of the Ukrainian Parliament and in 2022 he was appointed minister.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has marked himself as one of his priorities to combat corruption at the highest level in time of war to modernize the country and meet the requirements for access to the European Union.
The Chinese president tells the United States that he has to be “faithful” to his word to solve the “problems to be solved”
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the United States must “be faithful to its word” in order to solve the “problems still to be solved” in the bilateral relationship.
“China and the United States have gone through ups and downs but we must respect each other, cooperate and coexist. We must be partners and not harm each other, and for that we have to look for common ground, be faithful to the words and determined with the facts,” Xi said during the meeting.
According to a statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Xi also warned that “you can’t say one thing and then do another,” after which he acknowledged that, “despite the consensus and progress made” in recent months there are still “many problems to solve and room to make an effort.”
“This year we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The important thing we have learned in this time is that we must be partners, not rivals. That we must achieve a mutual benefit instead of harming each other. The important thing is to look for the common points and put aside the differences,” Xi said during the meeting.
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The Chinese president received Blinken this Friday in Beijing for an interview that was not part of the agenda of the official visit made to China by the American diplomat.
This is the second time Xi has received Blinken in Beijing, given that the Chinese president already met the American on his last visit to the Chinese capital in June 2023.
Before his meeting with Xi, Blinken also met today in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, who warned him of “growing problems” in bilateral relations, after the U.S. Senate approved a bill that will force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell the popular TikTok video application if he does not want the platform to be banned in the United States.
ByteDance, the parent company of the platform, has made it clear today that it has no intention of selling the application despite US legislation.
Earlier this week, TikTok – which, like Western services such as Google, Facebook, X or Instagram, is blocked in China, where ByteDance operates a similar application called Douyin – already anticipated that it would challenge the new US law, which it considers “unconstitutional” in court.
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U.S. legislators justify their decision by arguing that the platform poses a threat to the national security of the United States due to the possibility that the Chinese government will access user data.
In March, China criticized the “repression” against the application by the United States for being “an intimidating tactic” that will eventually “turn against” the North American country.
Israeli bombings in the north and south of Gaza cause fifty deaths
The latest Israeli attacks and bombings along the Gaza Strip have caused the death of at least 51 people, most of them civilians, both in Gaza City (north) and in the southern area of Rafah.
Israeli fighter planes bombed a house belonging to the Al Shawa family last night, in the Al Rimal neighborhood, in Gaza City, where rescue teams recovered the lifeless bodies of three people, including those of a child and a woman, under the rubble.
As Palestinian sources reported to the WAFA news agency today, the victims and several injuries were transferred to the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, the last hospital in operation in Gaza City after the Israeli military siege left the Al Shifa inoperative in March.
Other bombings in the neighborhoods of Zaytun, south of Gaza City, and against a residential building in the center of the city, caused the death of another Gazan, as well as an indeterminate number of injuries.
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In Rafah, one fisherman died and another was injured, according to Palestinian medical sources, while in the center of the enclave several Gazans were injured in attacks against the refugee camps of Nuseirat and Bureij.
According to the latest figures provided on Thursday by the Ministry of Health of the Government of Hamas, more than 34,300 Palestinians have already died in Gaza, 75% women and children.
One of those little ones is a Gaza baby rescued from her mother’s womb, who died in an Israeli airstrike perpetrated in Rafah last weekend.
After five days of struggle to stay alive, he has finally died, as confirmed this Friday by a family member.
Over the weekend, 16 other children were killed in Rafah, where Israel is expected to start a ground offensive.
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A member of the Hamas political bureau asked the 18 signatory countries yesterday on Friday of a joint statement demanding the Islamists the “immediate” release of the 133 hostages, to also pressure Israel to accept a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Your sons and daughters are no more valuable than our sons and daughters,” the head of political and international relations of the political bureau of Hamas, Basem Naim, to which EFE had access, said today in a message.
Today, a delegation of the Egyptian Intelligence service is scheduled to arrive in Israel, in an attempt to revive the stagnant truce negotiations mediated by Cairo, Qatar and the United States, Egyptian security sources told EFE last night.
From Geneva, UN rapporteurs demanded that Israel allow the arrival in Gaza of the Freedom Flotilla that it plans to sail this Friday from Istanbul with 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid.
Diplomats have warned that the safe transit guarantee of this initiative is part of Israeli international obligations to prevent genocide in Palestinian territory.
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“Israel must comply with international law, including the recent orders of the International Court of Justice, to ensure the unhindered arrival of humanitarian aid,” they said in a statement.
Israel warned on Friday that any arrival of aid to Gaza other than by air, land border crossings or the port of Ashdod will constitute a “provocation,” after being asked by EFE about the administrative blockade that the Freedom Flotilla – a civilian initiative organized by human rights activists – says it is suffering in Istanbul.
