Shortly before getting bogged down in the Iran war, Donald Trump launched the Peace Board, the initiative with which the US president sought to consolidate the pacification and reconstruction of Gaza. The project was surrounded by doubts from the start, and the passage of time seems to be proving the skeptics right: four months after its establishment, the body lacks official funding and has not made any progress on the ground.
After Monday’s bombings of missile sites and vessels, the ceasefire, decreed a month and a half ago, was back on life support on Wednesday, very fragile. The United States directed attacks against an Iranian drone operation and a ground control base near the Strait of Hormuz, to which the Persian country claimed to have responded with an offensive against a U.S. airbase in Kuwait. All this occurred hours after President Donald Trump denied information that he was about to reach an agreement with Tehran.
The court judging the Kitchen case, the alleged parapolice operation to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas between 2013 and 2015, finished yesterday hearing the recordings submitted as evidence in the case and today will begin to listen to the ten accused, including former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez. The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for 15 years in prison for both.
At least for a few days, from today until June 4, the epicenter of judicial life will move from Madrid to Badajoz. In the Extremadura city, the trial for the alleged irregularities in the 2017 hiring of David Sánchez, brother of the current Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, by the Diputación de Badajoz, begins this Thursday. The oral hearing at the provincial court will put Sánchez and ten other defendants on the bench, for the alleged crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling.
The show is judged by the last act, always meant to dazzle, capture attention, and monopolize the commentary. That is the reality. When the show of judge José Luís Calama has not yet ended on track number one, the UDEF and José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero,…
The relentless succession of information about alleged corruption around the PSOE is already having an effect on Pedro Sánchez’s parliamentary allies. Nerves are beginning to show in some, although for now there are no signs of a possible change of side.
The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard also appeared yesterday at the headquarters of the armed institute, in the center of Madrid. It did so to collect the documentation of some internal files that were opened against several agents for alleged leaks to the members of the network that intended to sabotage investigations related to the PSOE sphere. Curiously, the delegation of civil guards that burst into the building of the General Directorate was led by Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Balas, the officer whom the “plumbing” of Ferraz, headed by the former Secretary of Organization Santos Cerdán and the former militant Leire Díez, wanted to see “better dead” so that “he would not become the executioner of everyone.”
The river had been sounding for some time. The name of the “plumber” Leire Díez had started to rumble. the PSOE reduced her to a mere militant. They expelled her and, with that, they thought that once the dog was dead, the rage was over. The greater denial was made, no one knew who this woman was who had held various positions of responsibility in public companies. The imprisonment of the then party organization secretary, Santos Cerdán, in June 2025 made the river sound louder, but Díez’s arrest in December – ordered by the National Court judge Santiago Pedraz – only made things worse for the formation led by Pedro Sánchez for a simple reason: from that very moment the UCO had her phone. Five months later, suspicions have come to light. Pedraz has uncovered a plot, led by Cerdán, whose objective was to destabilize judicial processes affecting the PSOE, the Government, or the president’s family. And all their activities would have been paid with false invoices by Ferraz – the party headquarters –.
Two days ago we wondered in this section if everything surrounding the judicial investigation into José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was enough for Pedro Sánchez to call elections. The answer was given yesterday by the president from Rome: “It is not enough”….
The Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich, who fell in the second round of Roland Garros, confirmed after the match the abrupt break with the one who since last January had been his coach, the Argentine Mariano Puerta, finalist in 2005 of the clay Grand Slam, the first won by Rafa Nadal.