Syria Chemical Attack a Brutal Mistake By Jorge Dezcallar

The Antiquary of Tehran (Ed. Península), an adventure for the most important events of the last 50 years under the guidance of Jorge Dezcallar . Although the world has changed, many issues remain in the same place where he left them. One of them is the endless fire of the Middle East, one of the regions he knows best. "The chemical bombing of Bashar Asadbesides a crime it was a brutal mistake.

It will not go unpunished, "he says, looking at Madrid's Gran Vía from a hotel too modern to situate his spy stories." The US has three options to respond: the bombing of a Syrian base, warning the Russians previously, as it did on the previous occasion. Another is not to leave Syria, but to stay. And to arm the opposition again, especially the Kurds, even if that complicates their relations with their traditional ally: Turkey. The third is to get more involved, with which Donald Trump would risk facing Russia and Iran, which could be worse . "

Dezcallar tells in the book the interiorities of his work as a spy in the prewar civilian Damascus, where he imposed his law and his fear Assef Shawkat, a mustachioed hoodlum that commanded the political police of the dictator. "My hair is still standing on end when I remember him surrounded by his muharabats ."

Returning to the present, he believes that Trump has only those "three options, which one is worse, because the sanctions are useless." He has two very disturbing advisers: Bolton and Pompeu, two guys who want to charge the nuclear agreement with Iran, a fascinating country with a regrettable regime, there is nothing better than the nuclear agreement, it is the best that can be achieved, Iran has always been a power in the region and wants to remain so, Tehran does worrying things, like its human rights policy, but the problem is not the atomic treaty, if Trump listens to his advisers and abandons him, it will cause divisions among the Western allies. "

Dezcallar debuted in the diplomatic world in 73. What has changed in the diplomacy of the Cold War era to our days? " The Checkpoint Charlie was a border between two worlds. Communism in Poland, where I worked, was very light compared to East Berlin. You could feel how terrible it was the GDR regime, because the Germans, when they get to something they really do it, our work was different, today the ambassadors in Europe are still necessary because someone should be able to call a minister at three in the morning or have the contact of this or that journalist, but their work has been reduced "he says.

In his book, Dezcallar perfectly describes names, dates, places and dialogues. "To remember I use the photos I've been doing for decades, I always bring a camera with me and that helps me to document everything because I have selective memory, I've been able to embellish some story with the passage of time, saying that such a guy was taller than what it was, but I assure you that the guy existed. "

For an old-school diplomat, it was imaginable that a guy like Donald Trump would win an election? "No. Never, at the time I was an ambassador, there was no Twitter or mobile phones, but in the US nobody could imagine this eight years ago, and I still can not understand that Hillary Clinton, the most prepared of the History, Trump has defeated him, a man whose ignorance on some important issues is obvious, but Trump has managed to manage the means provided by the new communication channels, such as social networks.He has taken over the presidency of someone who, in another era without Twitter, I would never have won these elections . "

For the one who was head of the Spanish spies from 2001 to 2004, "we have run out of privacy." And he explains: "Once we caught an ETA that had just killed a policeman, got into a woman's car and forced her down, but the lady left her bag with her cell phone in. It was 15 years ago. With current technology, you are permanently controlled, they know where you are, with whom, at what time. "

On Vladimir Putin, Dezcallar believes that "the disappearance of the USSR was experienced as a tragedy in Russia, Putin has given voice to a feeling of many Russians with a nationalist sentiment and is giving it results ." Now Moscow is well planted throughout the world , occupying the space left by Washington, selling weapons and influencing the foreign policy of half the world. "

Although "a retired person" is recognized, his vision of the current world is far from being that of someone who only contemplates it from a distance: "Populism comes from the erosion of the middle classes in the face of industrialization, globalization, the loss of power economic ... What is in crisis is the current state.The state does not control economic flows: large capital groups make investments and knock down bags while the bitcoins move at will without any state can stop it . The countries have lost control of information, they can no longer deceive anyone, they have also lost the monopoly of technology, now Google, Facebook and other companies have technological control while governments are late. There is no possible regulation. "
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And as a result of that frustration, populism comes: " People are still asking the state to solve their problems but they can not do it anymore ." That produces a disaffection before the people, who blame the so-called political caste . the crisis of social democracy in Europe no longer has social resources to distribute, populism feeds on that, and goes hand in hand with nationalism, but the problem is the same: dissatisfaction with a government that can no longer solve problems that they escape him. "

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