Finally, Someone Tells Hugo Chavez to “Shut Up”
AP reports: “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 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.
“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.
Imagine that. How civilized. How thoughtful. How proper.
But we’re talking about someone that is embraced by Hollywood. Sean Penn, Jane Fonda, Danny Glover and, of course, Cindy Sheehan. Liberals don’t ever apologize.
Chavez, a former soldier, made his mark on the three-day summit from the start, announcing his arrival earlier in the week with defiant lyrics from a Mexican ballad.
“With the truth in hand, I do not offend, I do not fear,” Chavez said on Saturday. “The government of Venezuela reserves the right to respond to any aggression.”
Speaking truth to power? Not exactly.
Little Hugo’s notion of truth is relative and certainly not democratic. From nationalizing (ie. taking over) the public utilities and airwaves to nationalizing any private school that refuses to submit to the oversight of his socialist government as it develops a new curriculum and textbooks.
“Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants,” said Chavez, speaking on the first day of classes.
All schools, public and private, must admit state inspectors and submit to the government’s new educational system, or be closed and nationalized, Chavez said.
Dictatorship. Censorship. Of course, all of this is just fine with the otherwise outspoken celebrities who adore him. After all, most of them didn’t get much schooling anyway.
Can you imagine Chavez with nuclear weapons?
November 11th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
And don’t forget paranoia, only a dictator with a load mouth like Chavez can raise a psychosis to a virtue. Like who in hell has any plans on taking over Venezuela?
Oh yes, I forgot, Haliuburtin Haliburtin & Haliburtin.
November 11th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
From the “School Shooter…” post:
“At least he wasn’t wearing a Che Guevara shirt.”
As I commented in that post, there doesn’t seem to be much difference.
And Chavez was almost correct when he said “Society cannot allow…” What he meant was, “A repressive, socialist government cannot allow…”
The guy stinks, just as much as the sulfur he conjured up in his imagination at the U.N.
November 11th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
At least he understands [original] “Spanish”, pun intended.