The Uruguayan president is traveling this Sunday, the 20th, to Chile to meet with five presidents who symbolize the worst of authoritarianism, corruption, and the squandering of public funds.
The Uruguayan, together with the leaders of Spain (Pedro Sánchez), Chile (Gabriel Boric), Brazil (Lula Da Silva), and Colombia (Gustavo Petro), published a column this Sunday in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, in which they emphasize the need to "condemn authoritarian tendencies" and to defend democracy as an "urgent task of our time."
Terrible signal
Sánchez, from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), is surrounded by corruption in his closest circle.
His wife Begoña Gómez and his brother David Sánchez are criminally charged with very serious corruption offenses.
The main leaders of his party are also charged with corruption, or are already in prison, such as his right-hand man and deputy until a few days ago, Santos Cerdán.
Santos Cerdán was accused of leading a criminal organization involved in rigging public works contracts in exchange for bribes, together with fellow socialists José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García.
A June 2025 report from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard implicated him in these activities, which led to his resignation from all his positions in PSOE.
On June 30, after testifying before the Supreme Court, a judge ordered his imprisonment without bail, due to risk of flight and evidence tampering.
Sánchez governs Spain with radical extremist groups, including the heirs of the terrorist group ETA.
