We analysed the 19,990 tweets of Spain's second Vice President and Sumar leader from August 2012 to January 21, 2025, the day she left X. Israel/Palestine dominates her archive (112 tweets). "Genocide" applied to Gaza appears in February 2024, sixteen months before Sánchez's archive. "Terrorist" applied to Hamas: zero. And on July 11, 2021 — the largest protests in Cuba in sixty years — the Vice President posted about a helicopter crash in Zaragoza.
Of the seventeen crises tracked, only four exceed ten tweets. Israel/Palestine dominates with 112. Ukraine follows with 29 — nearly all in 2022. Venezuela appears with 12, but nine of them are quotes from the Galician PP using Venezuela as a parliamentary argument, not Díaz's own views. Afghanistan, with 10, corresponds entirely to the Kabul evacuation of August 2021, when Díaz was Vice President.
The rest of the map is silence: zero on Yemen, Sudan, Rohingyas, Uyghurs, Boko Haram, Hong Kong, and Karabakh. One tweet on Syria — the 2023 earthquake, not the war. One on Tigray — MSF workers killed in Ethiopia. One on Iran — Mahsa Amini — and nothing else in twelve years.
Díaz's Israel/Palestine archive begins in 2012, with tweets about the situation in Gaza from her accounts as a Galician MP. But production concentrates massively after October 7, 2023: 22 tweets in the final three months of 2023, 55 in 2024, and 2 in the three weeks of January 2025 before leaving X. That is, 70% of all her tweets on the conflict belong to the fifteen months following the Hamas attack.
| Period | Tweets Israel/Palestine | Mentions "genocide" | Mentions "ceasefire" |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-government (2012–2019) | 31 | 0 | 0 |
| Vice President (2020–Jul. 2023) | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Post-October 7 (Oct. 2023–Dec. 2024) | 77 | 32 | 16 |
| January 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
The word "genocide" applied to Gaza first appears on February 9, 2024, four months after October 7. From then on, it becomes a fixture in her vocabulary: 32 tweets with "genocide" between February 2024 and January 2025. For context: Pedro Sánchez did not use the term until September 2025, sixteen months later.
Yolanda Díaz published two tweets on October 7, 2023. The first: "Consternada por las imágenes que llegan desde el sur de Israel y Gaza. Mi solidaridad con todas las víctimas" ("Dismayed by the images coming from southern Israel and Gaza. My solidarity with all victims"). The second, one minute later, immediately pivoted to "the occupation" and "the dignity of the Palestinian people". She did not mention Hamas. She did not use the word "terrorist". She did not identify the aggressor.
The word "terrorist" never appears in any of Díaz's 112 tweets on Israel/Palestine. Hamas is mentioned four times across the entire archive — always in the context of ceasefire negotiations, never as the perpetrator of terrorist violence. In 19,990 tweets, the Vice President of Spain never once called "terrorist" the group that carried out the October 7 massacre.
Díaz's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine was immediate and explicit. On February 24, 2022: "Condeno esta intolerable agresión de Rusia" ("I condemn this intolerable aggression by Russia"). The vocabulary is clear: "aggression by Russia", "intolerable", "I condemn". No equidistance. No anti-NATO "but".
Of the 29 tweets on Ukraine, 25 belong to 2022. From September 2022, the Ukraine war virtually disappears from her archive: one tweet in 2023, two in 2024. The last, from March 4, 2024, already subordinates Ukraine to Gaza: "We did not hesitate on Ukraine, we cannot do so now on Palestine". The Ukrainian people vanish; what remains are the effects on Spanish workers.
In November 2016, on Fidel Castro's death, Díaz posted in Galician: "Fidel un dos imprescindibles do SXX. Un revolucionario" ("Fidel, one of the indispensable figures of the 20th century. A revolutionary"). In October 2021: praise for Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta at Madrid's Teatro Real. In May 2022: the Saratoga Hotel explosion. Cuba exists in Díaz's archive as culture, as revolutionary solidarity, and as consular emergency. Never as dictatorship. Never as repression.
On July 11, 2021 — the largest protests in Cuba in sixty years, with over 1,000 arrested according to Human Rights Watch — Yolanda Díaz was Vice President of Spain. That day she posted about a helicopter crash in Zaragoza, a customs officer's death, and macroeconomic figures. In the days that followed, as arrests multiplied, she posted about electric vehicle policy, Galician highway tolls, and a Council of Ministers meeting. Cuba: zero. This is not a silence of passive omission. It is a silence of active presence: the Vice President was posting on X those days, on other subjects.
Díaz's archive contains one genuine tweet on Iran in twelve years. On September 24, 2022: "La rebelión de las mujeres iranís tras el cruel asesinato de Mahsa Amini es un ejemplo de valentía" ("The rebellion of Iranian women following the cruel murder of Mahsa Amini is an example of bravery"). It is a powerful tweet. And it is the only one. The repression of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement — 500 dead, 18,000 arrested — did not generate a second tweet.
Methodological note: the automated dictionary identified 11 tweets containing the string "irán". Manual verification reveals that 10 are false positives: "irán" in Spanish and Galician is the third-person plural future tense of the verb "ir" (to go) — "los trabajadores irán a la huelga" ("the workers will go on strike").
Nine of the 12 Venezuelan tweets correspond to 2015 and are parliamentary responses to the Galician PP: Feijóo used Venezuela as an argument against the left in the Galician parliament. The content is not an opinion about Venezuela; it is a denunciation of the right's instrumentalisation of Venezuela. Across the entire archive, Díaz does not publish a single condemnation of the Maduro regime in her own voice.
Both tweets on Nicaragua express solidarity with the dissidents of Ortega's regime, naming concrete individuals — Gioconda Belli, Mónica Baltodano. They identify the opponents as "fighters for democracy". In the context of the series, where Cuba and Venezuela generate near-total silences, this is an interesting anomaly. However, the word "dictatorship" does not appear. The word "Ortega" as the agent of repression does not appear either.
Yolanda Díaz left X on January 21, 2025, the day of Donald Trump's second inauguration. Her final tweet in Spanish: "Defender la democracia es dejar de utilizar herramientas que la debilitan" ("Defending democracy means stepping away from tools that undermine it"). This decision freezes the archive at a precise moment: before the Iranian massacres of January 2026, before Sánchez's evolution toward "genocide" in September 2025, and before any possible hardening of her position on the Gaza war.
Yolanda Díaz held a government position between July 2021 and November 2023. Unlike Sánchez, she was not responsible for foreign policy: her tweets on international crises are voluntary political positions. Her condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was explicit and immediate — without the anti-NATO "but" that defines the French profiles in the series. Her tweet on Mahsa Amini is the only one in the series among the Spanish left-wing profiles. And her two tweets on Nicaragua, naming individual dissidents, document concrete solidarity with the victims of a left-wing regime — something no other Podemos profile in the series presents. This analysis documents silences and drift; it does not attribute intentions.
Yolanda Díaz shares with the five Podemos profiles the concentration on Israel/Palestine and the silence on most crises. But she differs on four dimensions: (1) her condemnation of the Russian invasion was the most explicit across the Spanish left; (2) she is the only member of the Podemos-Sumar group to have posted on Mahsa Amini; (3) she is the only one to have named and given voice to Nicaraguan dissidents; (4) her use of "genocide" preceded Sánchez's by sixteen months.
What she shares with every profile in the series, without exception: zero on Yemen, Sudan, Rohingyas, Uyghurs. What she shares with the left-wing group: zero times "terrorist" applied to Hamas. What singles her out within the left: Cuba's 11J in absolute silence while she was Vice President — a silence of particular gravity, because it was not an omission from afar but an active decision by a governing official.
Full archive of @Yolanda_Diaz_ (19,990 tweets, 16 August 2012 – 21 January 2025). 17-crisis dictionary identical to the profile series, with manual verification of borderline cases. Documented corrections: (1) the 11 tweets identified by the string "irán" reduce to 1 genuine tweet — the remaining 10 are the third-person plural future tense of the verb "ir" (to go) in Spanish and Galician; (2) the 12 tweets on Venezuela include 9 quotes from the Galician PP using Venezuela as a parliamentary argument; (3) the 7 tweets on Cuba include 0 references to political repression. Díaz's archive has been frozen since January 21, 2025. This is a drift analysis, not a comparative profile.