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...Chávez Goes Cellular...
...STING Spanish King Juan Carlos I made headlines when he cut off a ranting Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez at a Chilean summit by saying "Why don't you shut up?" Now the comment has become a cultural phenomenon...
...shut up?' JUAN CARLOS I, King of Spain, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, after Chávez called former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar a "fascist" during a summit in Chile...
JUAN CARLOS I, King of Spain, to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, after Chávez called former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar a "fascist" during a summit in Chile...
...Venezuela, Chávez's weak political opposition is gleefully playing and replaying video of the summit exchange - especially delighted that the King used the informal, less respectful form of Spanish to address Chávez. They'll no doubt hope to use it to erode support for a raft of controversial constitutional reforms Chávez wants - including the elimination of presidential term limits - before a Dec. 2 referendum. Still, Chávez has come through past diplomatic outrages unscathed - in fact, just weeks after calling U.S. President George W. Bush "the devil" at the United Nations last year...