Spain’s king tells Chavez ‘shut up’
The king’s outburst at the Ibero American summit followed days of criticism by leftist Latin American leaders of Spain’s political and business influence in former colonies. The spark came when Mr Chavez repeatedly called Spain’s former conservative prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, a fascist.
Spain’s left-leaning El Periodico de Catalunya newspaper, representing a region where anti-royal sentiment runs high, said yesterday that Mr Chavez’s behavior had been intolerable