Carmen Martínez Castro (born 1961) is a Venezuelan-born Spanish journalist who was the Secretary of State for Press in the Spanish Ministry of the Presidency from 2011 to 2018.

[1] Martínez has a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid.

She was also the director of La Brújula and the midday newscast of Onda Cero.

[2] On 5 May 2018, in the context of a public act of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Alicante, Martínez, who was present at the entrance of the act, privately criticized the protesters in favor of the increase in pensions who were protesting there with a "Make you want to cut your sleeves and say fuck you", words that were captured by a nearby recording, which would go viral.

The comment was the subject of a wide controversy collected by most of the Spanish media.