Spain’s king tells Venezuela’s President Chavez to “shut up”
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On 10th November 2007, the Prime Minister of Spain, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was making a speech at the Ibero-American summit at Santiago, Chile.
The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez interrupted him.
This prompted the King of Spain, King Juan Carlos to say, while raising a hand at Chavez : “Why don’t you shut up?”
Zapatero was in the middle of a speech at the summit of mostly leftist leaders from Latin America, Portugal, Spain and Andorra, and was criticizing Chavez for calling former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar a fascist.
Chavez, a leading leftist foe of Washington, also attacked Spanish businessman Gerardo Diaz Ferran earlier in the week after he questioned the safety of foreign investments in Venezuela.
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