> They are socialists so they don't care if blue collar workers suffer

Elmundo newspaper is a liberal oriented newspaper and they have their audience. Trying to milk the maximum level of outrage about anything done by evil socialists is expected for they.

Thus, take in mind that the real situation could be (and probably will be) a little less melodramatic. Some of their journalists and their director have been fined for spreading difamatory, partial or even faked news in the past.