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Spanish king tells Chavez to 'shut up'
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by urbano411 | November 10, 2007 at 04:16 pm
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¿Porque no te callas? Chavez thought he was on his weekly show in Venezuela, where he always is the only one talking. King Juan Carlos must not have received the memo!
The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.Chavez, who called President Bush the "devil" on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist."
Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."
Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.
"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.
Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.
Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"
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at 18:37 on November 10th, 2007
urbano411, . Good stuff. Chavez cracks me up.
at 18:46 on November 10th, 2007
Urbano411, May I bring to your attention this seems to be a repeated story published earlier. May I invite you to peep at Chavez angers King of Spain. You may like a different view than Miami Herald!
at 19:09 on November 10th, 2007
Rahul, I so hear you. I've often mentioned to staff that it can be crazy-making when duplicate stories show up. I try to get past it by cross-linking between stories if one is mine, and if there's something different in it that makes it something that I don't delete. Sometimes, if someone else is ahead of me, and I don't have all that much commentary in mine, I'll just delete mine.
But other times, it's better, I think, to just visit each other and cross-link. I just really like the feeling of doing that, and of also knowing we're giving readers multiple resources.
Thank you for raising this question. Maybe it needs to be a forum topic again. What do you think?
at 19:24 on November 10th, 2007
PEP, you are wise in your approach to this problem. I will incorporate this into my kit bag. I think that we will often be faced with this situation since many of the stories have, at the very least, two points of view. It is important for readers to get a full panoramic view of the reporting.
at 20:04 on November 10th, 2007
Thank you, Urbano, you're very kind. You made me feel good! I'm sure that together we can all come up with a common sense, shared way to handle this and other things.