Translation for "witchhunt" to spanish

Witchhunt

noun

• caza de brujas

Translation examples

caza de brujas noun

Thomas and Nixon represented a more civilized form of witchhunter, and the committee was now trying to distance itself from Rankin’s harangues.
Thomas y Nixon practicaban una variante más civilizada de la caza de brujas y la comisión intentaba entonces distanciarse de las filípicas de Rankin.

The kidnapping and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, who had been decried by some as an old Nazi and representative of management and factory owners, had unfortunately inspired a witchhunt by the authorities against intellectuals, artists, and liberals.
El secuestro y asesinato de Hanns-Martin Schleyer, representante del empresariado y los industriales, al que algunos tachaban de antiguo nazi, desgraciadamente había desencadenado una caza de brujas por parte de las autoridades contra intelectuales, artistas y liberales.

It is almost as if confronted with the absence of a 21st century Red Menace, a new generation of post–cold war would-be red baiters decided to rehabilitate the old one. These anti-anti-anti-communists—citing both a cache of recently released cables between Moscow and its agents in this country that were intercepted during World War II; and also selectively leaked documents from KGB archives— seem to argue that, in effect, McCarthy & Co. were right all along: That the new documents reveal that American did indeed suffer from an internal red menace, that Washington was a nest of spies, that those, like the late editor of The Nation, Carey McWilliams, who called the old congressional investigations a witchhunt, were either fools or knaves deploying a misleading or misinformed metaphor.
Se diría que, acabada la Guerra Fría y ante la ausencia de una amenaza comunista en el siglo XXI, una nueva generación de aspirantes a cazarrojos hubiera decidido rehabilitar a la anterior. Estos anti-anti-anticomunistas (citando tanto unos cables ahora públicos que Moscú envió a sus agentes en Estados Unidos y que fueron interceptados durante la guerra mundial como ciertos informes del KGB que salieron a luz recientemente) parecen en efecto sostener que McCarthy y compañía siempre tuvieron razón, que esos nuevos documentos confirman la existencia de una auténtica amenaza roja dentro del país, que Washington era un nido de espías, que quienes consideraron la investigación del Congreso una caza de brujas (como hizo el antiguo director de The Nation, Carey McWilliams) eran unos ingenuos o unos sinvergüenzas que esgrimían una metáfora imprecisa o insidiosa.