Posted on 11/26/2007 4:42:01 PM PST by spintreebob
King Juan Carlos of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to zip his lip recently, and the Spanish-speaking world went nuts.
Overnight, the king’s Why don’t you shut up? became a YouTube sensation and a downloadable ring tone. One industrious composer turned the king’s choice words into new lyrics, giving the old warhorse “Que viva Espana” new, and somewhat amusing, life.
At the three-day Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, Chavez seemed to take every opportunity he could to pick a fight. He targeted former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who wasn’t present, calling him a “fascist,” adding that fascists “are not human. ... A snake is more human.”
When Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the current Spanish prime minister, took issue with Chavez’s comments and attempted to express disapproval of the Venezuelan’s personal attacks on a former leader “elected by the Spanish people,” Chavez insisted on interrupting and repeating his “fascist” slur. The king, sitting at Zapatero’s left, leaned forward, pointed straight at Chavez and uttered the now famous five words.
Newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic weighed in with polls and opinion columns regarding an exchange some deemed historic. The unprecedented spat will mark “a before and after” in this kind of summit, according to the Spanish conservative daily El Mundo. When the king told Chavez “what someone should have told him long ago,” it marked the end of tolerance for Chavez’s “political bullying.”
Writing in Granma, the official and only daily in Cuba, Fidel Castro said that “Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007, will be remembered in the history of our America as the day of truth. ... The ideological Waterloo,” when Chavez stood firm in the face of an imperialism that will take us “to the suicide of our species.” http://www.reflejos.com/onlinepdf/20071118/20071118_Ref_p09.pdf
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True here in IL among both legal and illegal Hispanics. A big buzz. They've always stood with Fox/Calderon in being more anti-Chavez than any other world figure ... including Castor, who is now #2.
But I can find no mention in any "English" press.
not all news is bad news. We just have to hunt for it.
>> But I can find no mention in any “English” press.
No mention of what?
The incident itself?
Or the “buzz” among hispanics in Illinois?
Castro’s right about the Waterloo part.
Who was the mass murderer who couldn’t get into the police force, so he got a job patrolling neighborhoods for violations? He killed a bunch of people. Chavez seems to be the same strain. They crave adoration and subserviance, when you do not give them that, they have to punish you.
if it reflects favorably on latin americans, you won’t find mention of it here, either. Asbestos suit? Check. Back-up screenname? Check.
btt
Who’s setting the limit and who will do anything but tell him to shut up? When he gets a serious smackdown give me a wake up call.
Castro is one of those fanatical ABBA fans.
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