Pedro Sánchez defends the Spain-United States relationship and criticizes Donald Trump at the UN

One of lime and another of sand. The country on the one hand, the leader on the other. The stick and the carrot. In a period of just a few hours, Pedro Sánchez made a plea in favor of the relationship between Spain and the United States and then made a very harsh speech before the United Nations General Assembly against Donald Trump. Fifteen minutes of frontal opposition without mentioning his name, but with very clear implicit allusions. "I have seen illegal wars launched and innocent civilians massacred"; "They despise science and assume that there are countries so powerful that they can abuse others and do not need anyone to prosper"; "Preventing our territory from being used to deploy aggression contrary to international legality"; "in the face of the chainsaw that has cut almost a third of global development aid"... To the good understanding

An intervention in which the President of the Government appealed to Ceuta to vindicate the values of the UN and as one more notch of the dialectical and political attack that, he considers, his progressive government suffers for defending values such as human rights. "I know that, in moments like this, the temptation is to choose the shortcut. Give in to fear, turn the migrant into an enemy and violate legality. But, my country Spain is not going to do it. And neither will a Spanish city Ceuta - he emphasized the Spanishness of the autonomous city -. Because its citizens are showing that a crisis can be faced without giving up decency, maintaining legality and respecting human rights."

The migration crisis as an argument before the UN leaders of the two visions that confront each other in the world today. A context in which Sánchez presents himself as 'resistant', as the politician who endures in the face of the advance and strength of the "reactionary forces." "We will emerge stronger precisely because of that. Because Spain does not choose the easiest path. It chooses the fairest path. The whole world knows it. The reactionary forces that want to destroy the multilateral order do not stop attacking us for this. They want us to cower. They want us to surrender."

Sánchez and his manual of resistance in the forum par excellence of multilateralism. "We are not going to remain silent. We Spaniards are not going to take a step back. We are not going to stop believing that humanity can continue to progress and that, together, we can build a better world." On the one hand, he and his call for the mobilization of progressives. On the other hand, the "reactionary powers": "These ideas are being attacked by political actors and governments that want to return us to a gray past. There is no need to point them out. We all know who they are and what their modus operandi is. They start by questioning the rules. Then they break them."