Pablo Iglesias, the new Epigmenio?

Pablo Iglesias and Inna Afinogenova arrive in Mexico to install the political manipulation channel Canal Red.

Iglesias markets his brand name as "progressive left," but he fails to use the word "dictatorship" when referring to Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

As vice president, and not one of Pedro Sánchez's government's foreign policy responsibilities, Pablo Iglesias applauded AMLO's criticism of King Felipe VI for not apologizing to Indigenous peoples; in other words, he was plotting behind cameras and microphones.

Class struggle shapes Pablo Iglesias's rhetorical profile, but his idea of equality can be considered discretionary when it comes to the family. His luxurious home in Galapagar, located 33 kilometers from Madrid, is reminiscent of Peña Nieto's white house or José Ramón López Beltrán's gray house. Iglesias's house is the red house.

Iglesias and his wife, politician Irene Montero, paid 600,000 euros (more than 14 million pesos) for a luxurious residence near Guadarrama Park.

Catalan journalist Marc Marginedas, kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State terrorists for six months between 2013 and 2014, knows the case of Inna Afinogenova, a former RT contributor, like few others.

She acts, writes Marginedas, “as a bridge between Russian propaganda and social and political movements in Spain, providing content to pro-Russian channels in Spanish” (El Periódico de Cataluña, January 25, 2025).

Marc Marginedas told me last week that Pablo Iglesias's main objective in establishing the Canal Red television channel in Mexico, with Inna Afinogenova as its star presenter, is to launch campaigns against the United States, that is, the advisability of breaking alliances with Washington and building them with nations that are enemies of the White House.

Pablo Iglesias arrives in Mexico in partnership with the Public Broadcasting System, headed by Jenaro Villamil. His appearances can be seen on the talk show Masiosare on Channels 11 and 22.

During the previous six-year term, Jesús Ramírez Cuevas opened the doors of the National Palace to Pablo Iglesias and Inna Afinogenova. A prearranged interview with AMLO cemented the dogmatic interests between the Morena government and Canal Red.

What will President Sheinbaum think about the fact that, at a time of tense political negotiations with Donald Trump, Pablo Iglesias and Inna Afinogenova set up an advertising agency in Mexico whose aesthetics reflect those of a supposedly diverse news channel, funded, in part, with public funds from the Mexican state?

The discrediting of Afinogenova and Iglesias in Spain leads them to "make their mark in the Americas."

Will Pablo Iglesias become the new Epigmenio Ibarra?