Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez was in Spain on July 25, where he proposed discussions about Europe's new policies towards immigrants [2] from Latin America—and also used the visit to mend fences with President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and King Juan Carlos I. During the 17th Iberian-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, in November 2007, Chávez had repeatedly interrupted Zapatero, and Juan Carlos finally told Chávez: "Why don't you shut up? [3]" This time Chávez held the king in a long embrace. Juan Carlos gave him a t-shirt reading: "Why don't you shut up?" and Chávez joked about the king's royalties from the expression. (La Jornada, Mexico, July 26 from correspondent)
From Weekly News Update on the Americas [4], Aug. 3
See our last posts on Venezuela [5], Spain [6] and the politics of European immigration [7].
