Today's events have been building in recent weeks, with the key context being:
1.) A Spanish Supreme Court ruling 3 weeks ago that pushbacks for people who swim in to Ceuta from Moroccan territory are not permitted.
2.) The cementing of a thaw in Spanish-Algerian relations with Sanchez's visit to Algiers last week.
Whatever the organic reaction inside Morocco to 1.), Rabat is clearly looking to remind Spain of its role as its outsourced border guard, as the Sanchez admin seeks increased gas from, and closer ties with, Algeria. For any journalist who has visited Spain's two North African cities, it is obvious such mass incursions only happen when the Moroccan authorities enable them, as in 2021 in Ceuta and 2022 in Melilla.
Yet also highly likely that today's events had the enthusiastic support of Washington - another front in Trump admin's attempts to undermine the Spanish government. This comes after the US Homeland Security department sent the contents of a cloned phone belonging to Venezuelan businessman to investigators at the Spanish High Court - that in turn enabled the opening of a formal investigation into former PM Zapatero, a key Sanchez ally.
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