The forensic psychiatrist says television work remains secondary to his practice, where 80 homicide cases are awaiting trial. José Cabrera made the claim in an interview with EL ESPAÑOL. He also discussed his long media career and offered assessments of Spanish politicians.
One of his sharpest remarks concerned a conversation about Pedro Sánchez. Cabrera told EL ESPAÑOL that he had heard Rubalcaba say, translated from Spanish: “Pedro Sánchez, if he wins the primaries in the PSOE, will destroy the PSOE.” He recounted the remark as his recollection of a warning made before the party’s May 2017 leadership contest.
Cabrera said he had known Sánchez for more than 12 years, dating their acquaintance to the period before the PSOE primaries. Sánchez first became the party’s secretary-general after winning its July 2014 primary with 48.67% of the vote. During the PSOE’s 2016 internal crisis, he resigned from the post on 1 October after losing support in the party’s governing bodies. He returned to the leadership in the primary on 21 May 2017, receiving 50.3% of the vote against Susana Díaz’s 39.9%. Sánchez became prime minister in June 2018 after a motion of no confidence against Mariano Rajoy. Cabrera described the prime minister as someone whose core personality had not changed, but said he had learned to adapt to political life. These were Cabrera’s personal assessments, not clinical findings presented in the interview.
He also described Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a technocrat who lacked warmth with voters. Santiago Abascal, he said, was more closely connected to his upbringing and political convictions. Cabrera said he supported Vox because of its programme and his opposition to attacks on people or property associated with the party. He stressed that he had voted for other parties in the past.
Forensic work remains Cabrera’s main occupation, ahead of television. He said he had dealt with around 800 homicide offenders during his career, and that his team had 80 homicide cases pending trial. His route into television began more than 40 years ago, he said, when Televisa interviewed him while he was a military doctor treating a descendant of Moctezuma at the military clinic in Ciempozuelos.
His media work later included Cuarto Milenio and Horizonte. Cabrera said he valued the freedom to speak spontaneously on those programmes. He said he had written 60 books and wanted people to remember him with affection. Asked about his greatest fear, he said it was that people would not love him.
