José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was seen with Delcy Rodriguez and Nicolas Maduro when 104 gold bars worth 68 million dollars arrived in Caracas, the purchase of which Víctor de Aldama negotiated with Delcy Rodríguez. Zapatero and Aldama are the architects of the pro-Chavista turn of Pedro Sanchez throughout 2019, which culminated in the Delcygate the early morning of January 20, 2020 in Barajas. Very close to Delcy Rodríguez, their privileged relations with the Chavista regime gave them great influence over the Sánchez Government.
As reported Vozpópuli, the former president of the Government redoubled his role as representative informal of the PSOE against Chavismo after verifying that Aldama was chosen as his successor to negotiate the payment of Venezuela’s 200 million dollar debt with Globalia for his fluid dialogue with the Venezuelan Government, particularly with Delcy Rodríguez.
In 2019 Zapatero also applied himself to counteract Juan Guaidó while Pedro Sánchez was getting closer to Podemos, a process in which the former president played a key role. The UCO has captured the conversations of Aldama and Delcy on December 27, 2019, 17 days after he wrote the invitation letter to Delcy with the signature of Ábalos, the day of the signing of a gold purchase and sale agreement with Venezuela. On a MacBook he kept a photograph of a contract with the National Development Fund of Venezuela (FONDEN) for which it offered 104 gold bars to Bancasa worth 68 million US dollars. Delivery was to be made between December 27, 2019 and January 6, 2020.
Aldama sent photos to Delcy on December 28, 2019 of this operation. “Among them, a screenshot and a pdf file are located, referring to a flight plan with origin in Moscow on January 1, 2020, and destination Caracas on January 3 through Zambia“, emphasizes the UCO.
There is evidence of Zapatero’s frequent trips to Venezuela, which he himself classified as an average of eight a year since 2015 and not all of them transcend. His contact with the Spanish Embassy was scarce since the April 30, 2019 the opposition leader was taking refuge there Leopoldo Lopez. The former Colombian senator Piedad Córdoba placed him in Venezuela when the bullion arrived in an interview broadcast on February 27, 2020 in the Colombian environment The 2 shores.
Córdoba, who died on January 20, was a convinced chavista, that in the interview he defends the regime and the goodness of its leaders and assures that Chavismo would win the elections “with or without Nicolás”, in addition to criticizing Maria Corina Machado and praise Zapatero’s mediation work. This interview is known because in it links Zapatero with a gold mine that the regime would have given him.
“But how you are doing, I can’t understand. I told Rodríguez Zapatero, I don’t understand this. He told me: A They gave us all a gold mine. We explode and what does not reach us from our side, reaches us here“, declared Córdoba, who adds that Zapatero assures that he is going to buy mining “implements.” The gold triangulations often pass through Turkey and from there they are distributed to other places. “Everyone wants the gold from here,” he says Córdoba who continues that Zapatero explains that they had just bought the necessary tools from China.
This confidence occurs because Córdoba highlights on several occasions the natural wealth of Venezuelawhich assures that it is what the opposition wants to take away, but that coexists with the US blockadewhich he calls “crime against humanity.” He then expresses his incomprehension with the recent inauguration of a baseball stadium in La Guaira on January 5, 2020, in a situation of social and economic emergency. And there he places Zapatero, to whom he expresses his incomprehension, in a conversation in which the governor of Vargas also participates, Jorge Luis García Carneiro, Minister of Defense of Venezuela between 2004 and 2005, during the time of the sale of the frigates.
At that time the Spanish Government signed with that of Hugo Chavez one of the largest sales contracts for military equipment: twelve airplanes and eight frigates for 2,000 million euros. This operation was agreed upon on Zapatero’s first trip to Venezuela, in November 2004, a few months after arriving at La Moncloa, and was completed with Jose Bono as Minister of Defense in 2005. The Spanish ambassador was then Raúl Morodo, who has confessed in court to having collected, together with his son Alejo, million-dollar invoices from PDVSA in exchange for fictitious advice.
In 2021, El Pollo Carvajal, Former head of the Intelligence and Military Counterintelligence services of Chavismo, a refugee in Spain, also declared before the National Court that Zapatero owned a gold mine in Venezuela. In 2023, he said that he was earning profits from shares in Venezuelan companies that he had in the name of front men and offered to provide evidence if he was granted political asylum in Spain and was not handed over to the United States, which the Ministry of the Interior rejected.
Zapatero’s pro-Chavez turn
Zapatero had already experienced his own pro-Chavista turn in 2018. He began traveling to Venezuela after his departure from the Government amid widespread criticism of his management. In the 2015 elections he participated as an observer and did carry out surveillance work. From then on it was introduced into the negotiating dynamic, and until early 2018 it was accepted by both parties. In 2018 he fell into disgrace for his approach to Maduro, that was growing. He gave his support to the calls scorpionsopponents who sold themselves to the regime in exchange for money or favors.
The former president got Juan José Hidalgo an interview with Nicolás Maduro, but its mission failed due to the impossibility of exchange or transfer in official markets resulting from Trump’s sanctions and due to Juan Guaidó’s proclamation in January 2019.
In 2018 it experienced what they call a “pro-Madaturist turn”, which caused its repudiation by the opposition. To which it also contributed that In 2018 she became intimate with Pablo Iglesias, which put him in contact with the Puebla Group and this increased his influence on a certain international left.
Likewise, Zapatero used this growing network of influences that consolidated him as ambassador of sanchismo before Caracas and the political terminals of the populist left in other Latin American countries to also recover his leadership share in the PSOEa party that he controlled for twelve years, between 2000 and 2012.
He also intensified his work to counter Juan Guaidó’s proclamation as interim president of Venezuela in January 2019. Sánchez was also the first European leader to recognize him. In February 2019, Zapatero resumed his offensive, a task applauded by Podemos and the now minister Pablo Bustinduy in July 2019.
In Pedro Sánchez’s turnaround regarding Podemos and his government pact with the purples in November 2019, Zapatero played an important role, which led to the investiture on January 7, 2020. The “onslaught” of the document that wrote Aldama on your personal computer between 01:59 and 2:27 hours on December 10, 2019 which he sent to Koldo Garcia two minutes later. This is the letter of invitation to Delcy Rodríguez signed by José Luis Ábalos “as Secretary of Organization of the Spanish Socialist Party” dated December 10, which includes the latest report from the UCO.
Aldama’s approach
Aldama’s relations with the PSOE go back to long before Ábalos’s time as Minister of Transport and Secretary of Organization of the party. In fact, this link originally began through the contact established between Koldo García and the businessman and lawyer years ago, when both worked for the businessman Alberto Cortina, as you have been able to know Vozpópuli, at a time when Zapatero was already prominent in the socialist ranks until he took control of the party.
Throughout 2019, Aldama made progress in its penetration into the government environment. He had traveled on several occasions with the then CEO of Globalia, Javier Hidalgo, to establish a trade route between the Mexican State of Oaxaca and Madrid, including a visit at the end of 2018. Ábalos traveled there with Koldo García in February 2019 and Aldama appeared in the procession.
In August 2019, Jorge Giménez Ochoa agreed with Aldama, owner of Zamora CF, the transfer of players like Ignacio Anzola. Member of Delcy’s entourage, construction businessman, former contractor for the state oil company PDVSA, and since 2021 president of the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) with business in Spain, Giménez Ochoa was then president of the Venezuelan team of the Civil Sports Association Lara.
He August 8, 2019 Carlos Alberto Parra, linked to Giménez Ochoa, constitutes Apamate Corporate and Trust. He January 3, 2020, two weeks before Delcygate, one of the two companies through which Aldama collected commissions and with important tax contingencies that the Tax Agency (AEAT), Deluxe Capital receives a transfer of 300,000 euros from Apamate Corporate and Trust, according to a UCO report in the summary. January 3, 2020 is the same day that the gold bars arrive in Caracas. There is more payments from Giménez Ochoa throughout 2020 which the new UCO report confirms.
Aldama too He approached Begoña Gómez in his capacity as advisor to Globalia to collect Venezuela’s $200 million debt. The tourist group began sponsoring Sánchez’s women’s race in 2018, and Aldama and Javier Hidalgo strengthened ties with Gómez and talked about business in the summit of the UNWTO, the second sponsor of this race, which was held in Saint Petersburg between September 9 and 13, 2019. He also participated in that assembly of the UN Organization Felix Plasencia, then Minister of Tourism of Venezuela, very close to Delcy, and one of the members of his delegation in Barajas.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) was held in Madrid between December 2 and 13, 2019 and Ábalos participated in it. In the Venezuelan delegation there was Jorge Rodríguez, Delcy’s brother, today president of the National Assembly and then vice president of Communication, Culture and Tourism.
He December 8, 2019 The surprise party was held for Ábalos’s 60th birthday at the Wellow restaurant in Aldama, organized by him and Koldo García, whose attendance had to be confirmed, which was attended by Pedro Sánchez and Begoña Gómez, according to what was revealed The Objective.
Thirty hours later, Aldama created the document that the UCO has found on his computer that he sent to Koldo García. This is “an invitation that Ábalos would make as Organization Secretary of the PSOE to Delcy as Vice President of Venezuela.” He January 16, 2020 Sánchez gives the go-ahead to Ábalos: “Good.” In it travel plan that Aldama created for Delcy, quotes appear on the first day that point to the meeting with Zapatero that Ábalos’s entourage assures that the vice president of Venezuela was looking forward to.
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