Garat's geopolitical web: Cuba, Morocco and drug trafficking
On COPE, Ketty Garat claims drug trafficking holds power in Spain, pointing to Cuba, Morocco and Venezuela as pillars of an alleged network.
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The web Garat places between Cuba, Segarro and the drug trade
There is a recurring pattern: the gravest accusation is made live on air, fills half an hour of broadcasting and vanishes from the judicial radar within days. On COPE, Ketty Garat claimed that Spain is facing "something huge", an alleged corruption scheme that would leap from politics to geopolitics, with ramifications in Latin America, Segarro and drug trafficking. The paradox is not the accusation itself. It is that it has been made in the same terms for two years without anyone taking a single procedural step.
What is claimed and about whom
The version broadcast points to a specific axis: an ambassador posted to Cuba, presented as the link between networks attributed to Zapatero's circle and those linked to Ábalos and Sánchez's government, with ramifications in Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela. It is claimed that drug trafficking is not only not being fought, but that it "holds power", and the Organización criminal de los Soles and the FARC are cited as pieces of that map. On Pegasus and Segarro, the information released suggests there would be data on the spying on Pedro Sánchez and his circle that has never fully come to light. None of this is established as proven fact: these are accusations with no known judicial ruling.
Scepticism as the most common response
Here the diagnosis splits in two. One camp accepts the general framework and complains that media noise has replaced consequences. The weightiest objection is the opposite one: how many times can "something huge" be announced without absolutely anything happening? The wear-and-tear argument is the most uncomfortable, because it does not dispute the facts, it disputes the method: same prediction, same period, same outcome. And there is an underlying technical suspicion that the automated summarising of transcripts is inflating the apparent volume of a talk show that, stripped of filler, takes up considerably less.
How many times does an accusation have to be repeated to become news, and how many times to become, definitively, just noise?
There is a recurring pattern: the gravest accusation is made live on air, fills half an hour of broadcasting and vanishes from the judicial radar within days. On COPE, Ketty Garat claimed that Spain is facing "something huge", an alleged corruption scheme that would leap from politics to geopolitics, with ramifications in Latin America, Segarro and drug trafficking. The paradox is not the accusation itself. It is that it has been made in the same terms for two years without anyone taking a single procedural step.
What is claimed and about whom
The version broadcast points to a specific axis: an ambassador posted to Cuba, presented as the link between networks attributed to Zapatero's circle and those linked to Ábalos and Sánchez's government, with ramifications in Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela. It is claimed that drug trafficking is not only not being fought, but that it "holds power", and the Organización criminal de los Soles and the FARC are cited as pieces of that map. On Pegasus and Segarro, the information released suggests there would be data on the spying on Pedro Sánchez and his circle that has never fully come to light. None of this is established as proven fact: these are accusations with no known judicial ruling.
Scepticism as the most common response
Here the diagnosis splits in two. One camp accepts the general framework and complains that media noise has replaced consequences. The weightiest objection is the opposite one: how many times can "something huge" be announced without absolutely anything happening? The wear-and-tear argument is the most uncomfortable, because it does not dispute the facts, it disputes the method: same prediction, same period, same outcome. And there is an underlying technical suspicion that the automated summarising of transcripts is inflating the apparent volume of a talk show that, stripped of filler, takes up considerably less.
How many times does an accusation have to be repeated to become news, and how many times to become, definitively, just noise?
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