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Sunday, November 11, 2007

?Por qué no te callas? Or how Hugo Chavez got a come uppance

We were watching the Spanish news last night when we saw the most amazing thing. There was an item about a summit of a conference in South America involving Spain and South American countries. It seemed like a plenary session since the Spanish King was there as well as the heads of state and Zapatero, the Spanish President. Anyway, all of a sudden Hugo Chavez of Venezuela began to rant (no other word for it) about the previous Spanish President, Aznar, calling him a fascist and lower than a snake. Zapatero responded in a sensible way by pointing out that although his party was not close to Aznar, Aznar was nevertheless democratically elected etc. Chavez started again, at which point the King leaned forward in his seat, glared at Chavez and said, using the familiar, "Why don't you shut up?" It didn't actually shut Chavez up and then Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan president, started having a go at Spain too (whereupon the king walked out) but you could almost hear the entire Spanish population cheering. Chavez is a dangerous demagogue and we should be worried when he takes photo opportunities with the President of Iran. Now, if only our own dear queen.........

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