![]() Over the course of the past year and a half, people from the Dissent Foundation and from Vox visited several countries in Latin America and Portugal to sign up parties of the right-wing and right-wing politicians into their network. The Dissent Foundation claims that thousands of people from over twenty countries have signed the process, mostly leaders from a range of minor right-wing formations. In September, Vox and the Dissent Foundation used the Madrid Charter to launch a Madrid Forum, a platform to bring together right-wing groups into deepened collaboration against the left and centre-left. The Madrid Charter uses greatly exaggerated language – “yoke of totalitarianism” and “subjugating freedoms” – to whip up frenzy about the “threat of communism.” Spain is currently governed by a left of centre coalition (which includes the Communist Party of Spain, two of whose party members are ministers in the government) meanwhile, in Latin America, the victory of the left and centre-left in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Nicaragua and the establishment of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (CELAC) is a significant challenge to the right. “The advance of communism poses a serious threat to the prosperity and development of our nations, as well as to the freedom and rights of our compatriots,” says the text. This brief text warns about the rise of the left both in Spain and in Latin America. Later in the year, Vox’s Dissent Foundation published the Madrid Charter: In Defense of Freedom and Democracy in the Iberosphere, with the Iberosphere referring to the Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. The reason Abascal used the word “Dissent” is that Vox and other right-wing groups have begun to make the case that the left – including the Communists – are using authoritarian means around the world to prevent the right-wing from putting forward their ideas. Abascal and Espinosa de los Monteros returned home and – in July 2020 – created Fundación Disenso, a name already bristling with its strange politics. They discussed the need to create a right-wing think tank in Spain and to deepen right-wing internationalism. The two men spent time meeting the leadership of a range of right-wing think tanks, such as the Heritage Foundation and the International Republican Institute. Abascal came to Washington, DC, along with Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, the deputy secretary of Vox’s international relations department. EARLY in 2020, the leader of Spain’s right-wing party Vox, Santiago Abascal, went to the United States to attend the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) meeting. ![]()
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