23-F, the big top hat

From the hat of that great carrot wizard, Pedro Sánchez, now emerges February 23rd, which is like Obama's UFOs but in a Celtiberian version. Nobody saw anything, but everyone has an opinion. Sánchez's ability to shift the public conversation and steer it to suit his interests with high-impact, media-driven announcements reveals his team's keen sense for understanding the society of emotions, opinions, and distractions in which we live.

In fact, February 23rd is the great top hat of recent Spanish history: here I have a coup d'état and,ale hopNow I have a king who is saving the democracy we all built together. The idea that Juan Carlos de Borbón knew nothing about a helm prepared, among others, by General Alfonso Armada, who had been his mentor and direct collaborator, and with the participation of monarchist generals like Jaime Milans del Bosch, has been untenable for years. In fact, in the documentary Save the KingIn the documentary, which aired on HBO Max in 2022, three men presented as former Cesid agents state, with smiles: "The king is fully implicated in the 23-F coup" and "When the coup fails, a highly intelligent operation makes the king go from being the driving force behind a tuxedo." It would be another matter entirely if we were witnessing a game of implicit suggestions and palace intrigues, the kind that no longer leave marks, which the Bourbons are so fond of, as demonstrated by the existence of the verbto bourbon.

Knowing how Sánchez operates, there must be something in this declassification that will ultimately benefit him, even if it's just three days of talk shows. And a lesson for young voters: beware of far-right coups in Spain, which, unlike UFOs, are so real that the bullet holes are still in the ceiling of Congress.