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Article: King Juan Carlos tells Chavez to 'shut up'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2007
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By Graham Keeley in Barcelona
King Juan Carlos of Spain has made an unexpected foray into
international politics by angrily telling Venezuelan president Hugo
Chavez to "shut up".
In an outburst at the end of an Ibero-American summit in Chile,
the Spanish monarch, usually a strictly neutral figure in politics,
lost his temper with the outspoken Venezuelan leader.
The clash came after the leftist Mr Chavez repeatedly called
former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar a "fascist". As the
current Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, urged
Mr Chavez to be more diplomatic, the Venezuelan leader tried to
heckle him. At that point, King ...