Maribel Vaquero, spokesperson for the PNV in the Congress, has assessed the two-week ceasefire announced by Donald Trump and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as a "momentary relief". However, in an interview on Onda Vasca, she warned about the US president, whom she described as a "global danger".
“"It seems incredible to me that this person holds the reins and keeps us on edge every day with news and in suspense about what might happen in the world. I have no words to describe what is happening and the situation we are experiencing globally."
Vaquero finds it "incredible" that a leader like Donald Trump threatens "day in and day out" to commit crimes against humanity, even boasting that he will "make an entire civilization disappear". The 'jeltzale' spokesperson stated that, although there is now a "momentary relief", it remains to be seen "how time passes and if he returns with more threats, because he is a person who has interests that go beyond the interests of a nation, in his case, the US, and evidently he is a global danger".
According to Vaquero, Trump "is creating an instability that is difficult to overcome because it is not only the lives being lost and the attacks against many defenseless civilian populations, but also the complications and consequences it will have at a geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geosocial level". Maribel Vaquero foresees a year "globally and, especially, in that part of the East and the Persian Gulf", which will be "very difficult to reconstruct", indicating that "many years" will be needed due to the "important and difficult to measure implications this will have at a humanitarian and economic level".
On another note, regarding the rejection by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, of the transfer of Picasso's Guernica to Euskadi, Vaquero argued that if "politically there were another political will, there would be more possibilities" to transfer the work. "That political will must exist," insisted the 'jeltzale' spokesperson, referring to the technical reports cited by the Spanish Government for not addressing the demand. Vaquero does not question the technical reports from the Reina Sofía conservators that advise against the transfer of the work, but she has called for more studies by specialists.
After recalling that the painting "traveled halfway around the world" until it "ended up" in Madrid in 1992, the PNV spokesperson in the Lower House maintained that "a lot of years have passed since 1992 and techniques have improved". At this point, she called for an "in-depth" study on the transfer of the Guernica, led by international technicians and experts in the transfer of artworks. "We have seen more impossible things," she indicated, going on to argue that it would not be the first time the Spanish Government "says something cannot be done" and then "after a while" it ends up being possible.
