El Español
· 7 July 2026 · José Ismael Martínez
“Garzón, 'terminal del chavismo' ante la Justicia: de defender a Alex Saab en EEUU a la querella de Delcy contra Aldama”
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The best example of proof by inversion we have found: rather than deny that a man is his client, he points to the court case in which his firm is acting AGAINST him, naming the court and the claimant. In the same document, the previous sentence is a bare denial. Both categories, side by side.
How it ended, sentence by sentence
The outlet
6
5 unanswered
The accused
1
- 6 still standing: unanswered, or the outlet was right
- 1 answered, refuted with a document, or claimed without proof
- 1 denied without proof, or opinion
Article score: 8.6/10
Every sentence starts counting for the article, because unanswered is how it was published. Answering it takes the point off the outlet and gives it to the person named. Green means answered, not proven: what an editor has checked against a document is written in each sentence's own label.
What the outlet published
What the other side says
What the outlet published · Sentence 1
“Ahora se ha convertido en el abogado de los chavistas que llegan a España. Les presta servicios jurídicos y cobra por ellos. Entre sus clientes están el exviceministro de Energía, Nervis Villalobos”
Translation · ES
He has now become the lawyer of the chavistas who arrive in Spain. He provides them with legal services and charges for them. His clients include the former deputy energy minister, Nervis Villalobos
What this claims, in our words · ES
Entre sus clientes está el exviceministro de Energía Nervis Villalobos.
What the other side says
«El Sr. Baltasar Garzón Real jamás ha prestado ningún servicio profesional de la abogacía al Sr. Nervis Villalobos, ni personalmente ni a través del despacho de abogados ILOCAD.»
Translation
"Mr Baltasar Garzón Real has never provided any professional legal service to Mr Nervis Villalobos, neither personally nor through the law firm ILOCAD."
Baltasar Garzón Real, right of rectification under Organic Law 2/1984, published by El Español on 9 July 2026. EDITOR'S NOTE: an absolute denial with no document. Compare it with the next sentence of the same text.
What the outlet published · Sentence 2
“Entre sus clientes están el exviceministro de Energía, Nervis Villalobos o el exviceministro de Electricidad, Javier Alvarado Ochoa”
Translation · ES
His clients include the former deputy energy minister, Nervis Villalobos, and the former electricity minister, Javier Alvarado Ochoa
What this claims, in our words · ES
Entre sus clientes está también el exviceministro de Electricidad Javier Alvarado Ochoa.
What the other side says
«El Sr. Baltasar Garzón Real jamás ha prestado ningún servicio profesional de la abogacía al Sr. Javier Alvarado Ochoa, ni personalmente ni a través del despacho de abogados ILOCAD, siendo el Sr. Alvarado Ochoa objeto de una acción penal, ejercida por la entidad pública estatal Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. y a través del despacho ILOCAD, que se sigue ante la Sección de Instrucción del Tribunal Central de Instancia (Audiencia Nacional).»
Translation
"Mr Baltasar Garzón Real has never provided any professional legal service to Mr Javier Alvarado Ochoa, neither personally nor through the law firm ILOCAD, Mr Alvarado Ochoa being the subject of criminal proceedings brought by the state-owned entity Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. through the firm ILOCAD, which are before the Investigating Section of the Central Court of First Instance (National Court)."
Baltasar Garzón Real, right of rectification published by El Español, 9 July 2026. EDITOR'S NOTE: here he does not merely deny. He points to an identifiable court case — naming the court and the claimant — in which his firm is acting AGAINST the man the article presented as his client. It is checkable in the court register, and it makes the accusation logically impossible.
What the outlet published · Sentence 3
“Ha emprendido esta acción judicial a solicitud de Pedro Sánchez y los socialistas”
Translation · ES
She has brought this legal action at the request of Pedro Sánchez and the socialists
What this claims, in our words · ES
Es el intermediario jurídico del chavismo con el PSOE y la querella se emprendió a petición del Gobierno.
What the other side says
no reply yet
Are you Baltasar Garzón Real? Reply here →What the outlet published · Sentence 4
“En 2012, cuando era magistrado de la Audiencia Nacional, fue condenado a 11 años de inhabilitación tras ordenar la grabación en la cárcel de las conversaciones entre los presuntos líderes del llamado caso Gürtel y sus respectivos abogados.”
Translation · ES
In 2012, when he was a judge at the National Court, he was sentenced to 11 years' disqualification after ordering the recording in prison of conversations between the alleged leaders of the Gürtel case and their lawyers.
What this claims, in our words · ES
En 2012 fue condenado a once años de inhabilitación por el caso Gürtel.
What the other side says
no reply yet
Are you Baltasar Garzón Real? Reply here →What the outlet published · Sentence 5
“La más sonada —antes de la que ha trascendido este lunes— se desató cuando en el año 2020, este despacho de abogados asumió la defensa de Alex Saab, detenido en Cabo Verde tras ser acusado de ser un testaferro de Nicolás Maduro.”
Translation · ES
The most talked-about — before the one that emerged this Monday — broke out when in 2020 this law firm took on the defence of Alex Saab, arrested in Cape Verde after being accused of being a front man for Nicolás Maduro.
What this claims, in our words · ES
ALEX SAAB: le atribuye que su despacho asumiera en 2020 la defensa del detenido en Cabo Verde acusado de testaferro de Maduro. Un encargo profesional se acredita o se niega, y es del medio, no de una fuente.
What the other side says
no reply yet
Are you Baltasar Garzón Real? Reply here →What the outlet published · Sentence 6
“Ahora su nombre vuelve a trascender porque su bufete se ha hecho cargo de redactar el escrito de conciliación de Delcy Rodríguez a Aldama: un documento previo a la presentación de una querella por injurias o calumnias, según se anticipa en el mismo.”
Translation · ES
Now his name comes up again because his firm has taken on the drafting of Delcy Rodríguez's conciliation filing against Aldama: a document preceding a complaint for insult or slander, as the filing itself anticipates.
What this claims, in our words · ES
EL ENCARGO DE AHORA: redactar el escrito de conciliación de Delcy Rodríguez contra Víctor de Aldama, paso previo a una querella por injurias o calumnias. Lo afirma el medio y lo sostiene en el propio documento.
What the other side says
no reply yet
Are you Baltasar Garzón Real? Reply here →What the outlet published · Sentence 7
“Baltasar Garzón es el intermediario jurídico del chavismo con el PSOE, del mismo modo que Zapatero es el intermediario político”
Translation · ES
Baltasar Garzón is chavismo's legal intermediary with the PSOE, in the same way that Zapatero is the political intermediary
What this claims, in our words · ES
LA ETIQUETA MÁS GRAVE del reportaje, y la menos sostenida: intermediario jurídico del chavismo con el PSOE. Fuentes de la oposición venezolana, sin nombre. Ninguna prueba documental.
What the other side says
no reply yet
Are you Baltasar Garzón Real? Reply here →What the outlet published · Sentence 8
“Pero la mayoría de sus clientes son gente que hizo mucho dinero en negocios petroleros con PDVSA”
Translation · ES
But most of his clients are people who made a lot of money in oil business with PDVSA
What this claims, in our words · ES
SU CARTERA DE CLIENTES, descrita como gente enriquecida con PDVSA. Otra vez fuentes anónimas de la oposición venezolana; ni un nombre, ni una factura.
What the other side says
no reply yet
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