The possible irregular financing of the Bolivian Government to Podemos at the time of the presidency of Evo Morales , as it seems to be clear, according to the investigations of the Attorney General of Bolivia , of the contracts signed with the Mexican consultant Neurona Consulting , is no longer a matter that involve only the purple formation. It directly affects the Government and the party that sustains it, the PSOE. Because although it is true that it is up to Pablo Iglesias to clarify whether there was a massive diversion of funds from the Government of Morales to his organization - he has already been called to declare La Paz with Zapatero , Monedero and Errejón -, Iglesias is now vice president of a Government that is changing, to the amazement of the rest of our EU partners, its position with respect to the authoritarian countries of the Bolivarian axis, especially with Venezuela.

Do not forget that Sanchez, who in 2019 had recognized Juan Guaidó as president in charge of Venezuela , refused to receive him in Madrid last Saturday, while the strong man of the PSOE and Minister of Transportation, José Luis Ábalos , He secretly met at the Barajas airport with the number two of the Chavista autocracy, which is prohibited from stepping on community land for being accused of serious human rights violations in his country. All this happens at the same time that our newspaper is publishing irregular payments of up to 35 million euros from the Venezuelan state oil company to the plot of the former Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Raúl Morodo , personally appointed by Zapatero, whose fate has not yet been clarified.

The revelations of today, however, delve into the relationship of Podemos with Neurona Consulting, the electoral consultant who usually advises Maduro, Morales and other countries of the Chavista axis. As EL MUNDO has learned, the management of Podemos, contrary to the criteria of their lawyers - who were fired shortly afterwards - gave the order to sign a contract with Neurona worth 363,000 euros in February 2019 - when the company It was not yet constituted in Spain-, by a series of imprecise electoral services, for the elections of April of that year. That is, very shortly after, as we already reported and is investigating the Prosecutor's Office of Bolivia, Morales made a payment of 1.5 million euros to Neurona for the preparation of 169 small videos for social networks. The intermediary between the consultant and Podemos was none other than Juan Carlos Monedero , who has admitted that he advised Neurona in the past.

The murky relations of PSOE and Podemos with Latin American populism has already caused internal tensions that threaten the stability of the Government.

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