All major cases, as the Zapatero case is pointed out to be, have their concrete origin in a key figure. There is usually an individual who allows the investigating judge to turn the investigation around, a kind of patient zero. In the case affecting the former Spanish president, this figure is the Venezuelan Rodolfo Reyes Rojas and the lever necessary for Judge José Luis Calama to reach it has been the United States, as is evident from the report by the UDEF of the National Police. That is to say, the investigation into Zapatero did not begin with a complaint from Manos Limpias – as the Spanish government initially stated – but rather the indications now in the hands of the National Court come from the agency Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), still during the Biden administration.