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Spain's king to Venezuela's Chavez - "shut up"
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Posted on 11/10/2007 11:37:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Spain's king to Venezuela's Chavez - "shut up" Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:21pm EST

By Manuel Farias and Pav Jordan

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Spain's King Juan Carlos told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday to "shut up" during closing speeches by leaders from the Latin world that brought the Ibero-American summit to an acrimonious end.

"Why don't you shut up?" the king shouted at Chavez, pointing a finger at the president when he tried to interrupt a speech by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

Zapatero was in the middle of a speech to 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.

"I want to express to you President Hugo Chavez that in a forum where there are democratic governments ... one of the essential principles is respect," Zapatero told the leaders gathered in the Chilean capital, Santiago.

"You can disagree radically, without being disrespectful," Zapatero, a socialist, said sternly, drawing applause from some of the other heads of state.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; hugochavez; juancarlos; latinamerica; royals; spain; venezuela; zapatero
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To: bshomoic

Chavez’s source of power stems from the ever rising oil prices.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$4

Then what about Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Ecuador¨?

No...Chavez´s source of power is the greed of ordinary people who vote for Marxism in the voting booths.

And...IT CAN HAPPEN HERE! ( Yes, I am shouting. Why are people asleep?)

There are Marxists and their useful idiots in every government bureaucracy, in our legislatures, and ESPECIALLY our schools! They are hard at work indoctrinating our nation´s voters.

All Marxists lie. Marxists lie by calling themselves liberals, progressives, socialists, leftists, and Democrats.

Remember: Scratch a liberal and under his thin skin is socialist. Dig a little deeper and you will soon find the Marxist nuclear fuel rod that drives everything he says and does.


21 posted on 11/10/2007 12:08:07 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“’I want to express to you President Hugo Chavez that in a forum where there are democratic governments ... one of the essential principles is respect,’ Zapatero told the leaders gathered in the Chilean capital, Santiago.”

It’s unfortunate that Zapatero would allow that Venezuela under the pig Chavez is democratic. It is anything but. They should not have given Chavez the dignity of inviting him to a gathering of democratic nations.

And Chavez calling Aznar a “fascist” would be like Rosie O’Donnell calling someone butch. Aznar didn’t have protesters against his government gunned down in the streets, didn’t shut down the opposition media and didn’t rig the elections or attack opposition political parties. And when he was voted out, he left gracefully unlike Chavez who will not leave office without being forced to do so at gunpoint.


22 posted on 11/10/2007 12:08:11 PM PST by Hillary4Penetentiary ("I hope Hillary is elected" Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Whatever the case, Juan Carlos is temporarily my hero for being the first significant figure to spit in Chavez’s eye.


23 posted on 11/10/2007 12:10:11 PM PST by Clara Lou (Thompson '08)
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To: Sub-Driver

Good to hear.

Europe is slowly waking


24 posted on 11/10/2007 12:11:59 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Max in Utah

Chaves is a pinche puto


25 posted on 11/10/2007 12:13:18 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Cheney did, when he cussed out Leaky Leahy. I was cheering.


26 posted on 11/10/2007 12:20:00 PM PST by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: wintertime
"Yes, IT IS THAT SERIOUS! (yes, I am shouting, but everyone seems asleep)"

You'll just loose your voice like I did. Nobody is listening. Besides, you are shouting the message in the wrong forum. You need to shout it where the brainwashed leftist minions hang out.

27 posted on 11/10/2007 12:29:55 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Hillary4Penetentiary
I want to express to you President Hugo Chavez that in a forum where there are democratic governments ... one of the essential principles is respect

It’s unfortunate that Zapatero would allow that Venezuela under the pig Chavez is democratic.

My sense of it is that he was putting a thumb in Chavez's eye for running a totalitarian state. "In a forum where there are democratic governments"—as opposed to your tin-pot dictatorship.

28 posted on 11/10/2007 12:30:01 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: Sub-Driver

I’d love to see the YouTube of this.


29 posted on 11/10/2007 12:52:02 PM PST by tanuki (u)
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To: Sub-Driver

Seems that nobody can stand Chavez except American leftists.


30 posted on 11/10/2007 1:18:57 PM PST by VR-21 (Leftists justify their existance by kicking their own country in the teeth.)
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To: Clara Lou
A king worth his salt!

Indeed yes, and then some.

After Generalissimo Franco died, King Juan Carlos was installed as his successor. However, he brought in many democratic reforms that angered the hard-liner Francoists. The Spanish military attempted a coup d'état, intending to keep Juan Carlos as their figurehead. The King agreed to address the nation in support of the coup, but when the cameras came on, he called all Spaniards into the streets to fight the insurrectionists and preserve democracy. He is very passionately loved and respected by most Spaniards.

-ccm

31 posted on 11/10/2007 1:23:09 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: bshomoic
put tinpot dictators like Chavez out of business

Isn't it dreadful how the more oil a country has, the worse its government? Chavez of course, and the Saudi Arabian lice are the prime examples, but I would put the Mexican and Russian governments in the same category, along with all the other oil-producing Middle Eastern nations except maybe Dubai.

-ccm

32 posted on 11/10/2007 1:26:16 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Enchante
Big turd, little turd..... yeah, it fits.

Chavez and Morales like to paint the town red...


33 posted on 11/10/2007 1:27:27 PM PST by COBOL2Java (The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
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To: M Kehoe
Cierre su boca, Hugo. Usted es un socialista puta. ¿Comprende?

Sierre tu boca chingara, Hugo. Tu eres pandejo socialista.

Had to correct it :) ... why give them the respect of usted?

34 posted on 11/10/2007 1:28:50 PM PST by Centurion2000 (False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
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To: Sub-Driver
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Chavez: "You are a devil, you smell like sulfur, you are a drunk, you are the demon, you are a dictator, you are an assassin Mr. Devil, you are..."

Bush: "YEAH, Yeah, yeah, WHATever... just fill'er up MonkeyBoy!!!"

35 posted on 11/10/2007 1:34:30 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Centurion2000
Sierre tu boca chingara, Hugo. Tu eres pandejo socialista.

"Chingara" would be the "ing" form? I'm vague on pandejo - I know it's bad.

36 posted on 11/10/2007 1:42:32 PM PST by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: gotribe

“Mamon Culero Hue!”
/to finish the king’d thought.


37 posted on 11/10/2007 1:47:35 PM PST by kinghorse
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To: SamuraiScot

You could be right. I didn’t think of that. I hope it’s what you say and not some phony concession on Zapatero’s part.


38 posted on 11/10/2007 1:51:37 PM PST by Hillary4Penetentiary ("I hope Hillary is elected" Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades)
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To: machogirl
"socialist=democratic government?"

No, if you mean democratic as a practice (mind you, even we don't mean it in that sense most of the time).

But yes if you mean democratic as a supposed legitimizing factor, although "republic" -- that is a res publica or government drawing its authority ostensibly from the people -- would be a better word in that case.

39 posted on 11/10/2007 1:53:01 PM PST by Pelayo
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To: nina0113
I'm vague on pandejo - I know it's bad.

Insults.net - This concise site is all about profanity in foreign languages. It is a massive collection of nasty, nasty words in practically every language.

Spanish can be found here. Scroll down for the meaning of "pendejo."

(There will be a pop quiz on Monday.)

40 posted on 11/10/2007 1:59:47 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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