The new 'Horizonte' controversy: Dr. Cabrera insinuates that Sánchez "takes substances" and speaks of "mental alienation"

Doctor José Cabrera once again placed Horizonte at the center of controversy with an intervention in which he went from questioning Pedro Sánchez's behavior during the PSOE Federal Committee to suggesting that the President of the Government and other socialist leaders might have consumed substances. An insinuation for which he provided no evidence and which went beyond the political analysis of the images broadcast by the Cuatro program.

The conversation began with the kiss between Sánchez and Begoña Gómez and the president's subsequent dance. Before listening to Cabrera, Iker Jiménez asked him to speak "with the prudence that characterizes you" and to offer a "simple and coherent" analysis. However, the collaborator began by questioning the spontaneity of the kiss and even stated: "You have to be very desperate, very desperate, to publicize a kiss when he probably hasn't given her any in the last five years." A judgment on the couple's intimacy that he presented as a comment, but which he did not accompany with any element that would allow that statement to be sustained.

The intervention escalated when Cabrera tried to explain the dance of Sánchez and other PSOE members. "The debauchery of the dance can be due to two things: a temporary mental alienation or else that some substances are being taken here, gentlemen," he maintained. The phrase raised two explanations of enormous weight, one of them related to mental health and the other to alleged drug use, without providing any evidence to support either. Carmen Porter responded with a "No man, not that," while Jiménez first replied "That's your opinion" and, then, "No man, no." Cabrera, far from withdrawing the insinuation, insisted: "Yes, there's nothing else."

Porter proposed an alternative interpretation: that the dance could be a response to the joy of the campaign's start and electoral expectation. Alberto Sotillos summarized this possibility with the phrase "rallies give you a high". The presenters' reaction marked a certain distance from Cabrera's words, but also exposed the underlying problem: a political scene can be criticized, satirized, or interpreted, but suggesting that someone consumes substances or suffers from a mental alteration is not equivalent to offering a well-founded analysis and again highlights the ease with which certain hoaxes can be introduced into media conversation with complete impunity. In this case, the speculation was launched live and without proof, turning the collaborator's comment into the main focus of controversy.