Tertulia: El avance de Artemis II, las amenazas de Trump y la vista del caso Kitchen (06/04/2026)

April 6, 2026·1 hr 22 min·7 clips

Artemis II astronauts have reached the farthest point from Earth any human has ever traveled, orbiting the moon's dark side.

1. La Brújula on Onda Cero convenes its regular tertulian panel to cover Artemis II's record-breaking lunar flyby, the opening of the Kitchen espionage trial, and the political communications battle around corruption cases. 2. The regular panel includes José Ignacio Bert (former chief of staff to PM Rajoy), Pablo Pombo (communications strategist), Huesa (journalist), and host Rafael la Torre. 3. The episode's thesis is that the Artemis II achievement represents a genuinely human milestone while the Kitchen trial is being instrumentalised by the PSOE as a communications distraction from more proximate corruption cases. 4. Science correspondent Alberto Aparici reports live from the NASA YouTube stream: he can see the Mare Moscoviense, Tsiolkovsky crater, and the Aitken Basin on the Moon's far side, describing the experience as 'extraordinary.' 5. Aparici clarifies that the farthest-human-from-Earth record being broken today was previously held by Apollo 13 — not as a planned achievement but because an onboard explosion forced engineers to use the lunar gravitational slingshot to save the crew. 6. Artemis II is the first mission to deliberately reach this distance, as the lunar flyby trajectory is the planned path for a future Moon landing mission. 7. The four astronauts — three American and one Canadian — are testing the Orion capsule's pressure suits, radiation-safe compartments, and life support systems, spending 40 minutes in a communications blackout as the Moon blocks radio signals. 8. Aparici notes that China has positioned relay satellites to maintain communications on the far side, while the US does not, giving China a potential operational advantage in future lunar operations. 9. The host and panellist Bert discuss the dual nature of space exploration: the poetic dimension of human aspiration and the geopolitical competition for control of lunar minerals and orbital infrastructure between the US and China. 10. The Kitchen trial opened with preliminary motions at Spain's National Court; the defendants include former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and former state secretary Francisco Martínez, accused of using ministry reserved funds to run a parallel police operation against Bárcenas. 11. Rafael la Torre notes an unexpected alignment between the legal strategies of Fernández Díaz and Martínez that was absent during the instruction period, suggesting their legal teams may now be coordinating. 12. The PSOE is seeking to add former PP Secretary-General Dolores de Cospedal as a defendant mid-trial, a procedurally unusual request the panel describes as a political manoeuvre. 13. Panellist Pablo Pombo introduces the 'operación gazpacho' metaphor: the PSOE is trying to blend a 13-year-old tomato (the Kitchen case) into the fresh ingredients of the Coldo/Ábalos scandal to confuse public opinion, but the attempt is unconvincing because old tomatoes cannot make good gazpacho. 14. Pombo argues the PSOE's normalisation strategy will benefit Vox and other extremes who claim all parties are equally corrupt — the opposite of the intended effect. 15. Female panellist Huesa argues the Kitchen trial should be judged on its own merits regardless of political timing, and that the PP's most powerful response to the equivalence argument is to apply the same democratic regeneration standard to its own historical conduct. 16. Rafael la Torre identifies what he considers the most serious aspect of the Kitchen case: the operation targeted the protection of Mariano Rajoy personally, which is a decision that cannot have been made below the level of the Interior Ministry without broader political backing. 17. Rafael la Torre argues that evidence shows Sánchez's PSOE corruption network — specifically the Santos Cerdán connection bringing Koldo from Navarra and the Servinavar deal — predates the 2018 censure motion that brought Sánchez to power on an anti-corruption platform. 18. The programme closes with columnists from La Razón, El Confidencial, El Mundo, and 20 Minutos quoted on the Kitchen trial, with all describing the strategic dimension of the timing. 19. The tone is analytical and politically centre-right throughout; the panel does not dispute the seriousness of the Kitchen charges but consistently contextualises them within the larger Sánchez-era corruption picture. 20. Spanish listeners following the multi-front corruption investigations into both PP's Rajoy era and PSOE's current government will find detailed contextualisation; casual listeners unfamiliar with the Kitchen, Coldo, Gürtel, or Filesa cases will need significant background.

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