As you know, yesterday at the first plenary session of the XVII Iberoamerican Summit, the King of Spain (Juan Carlos) and Chavez staged an incident that will bring a lot of glue and possibly deteriorating international relations between Spain and Venezuela.
Here you have a video that contains part of what happened and the entire conversation acontinuación:
- Zapatero: "We are in a table where there are democratic governments representing their citizens in an Ibero-American community whose basic principles of respect. You can be the opposite of an ideological position, not for me which is near the former president Aznar, but the former president Aznar was elected by the Spanish, and I demand, I demand ...
- Chávez: Tell him that respect.
- Zapatero: I demand that you ... a momentín ...
- Chávez: Tell the same to him.
- Zapatero: I demand that respect, for one reason, also ...
- Chávez: Tell the same to him, President.
- Zapatero: Of course
- Chávez: Tell the same to him ...
-King: Why do not you shut up?
- Bachelet: Please do not dialogue, have had time to raise his position, President, finish.
- Chavez: It can be Spanish President Aznar, but it is a fascist and a ...
- Zapatero: President Hugo Chavez, I think there is an essence and that is to respect and to be respected, we must try not to fall in disqualification. It may differ radically from the ideas, report the behavior, but avoid disqualification. What I mean is that it is a good way to understand to work for our people, who we respect, democratic representatives, and ask-president Bachelet-that's a rule of conduct in a forum that represents the citizens that we respect all our leaders, all leaders and former leaders of the countries that make up this community.
I think it's a good start and I wish fervently that this is a code of conduct, because the forms are being to things, and may differ radically from all respect for people, that is the principle that one can later be respected .
I'm sure all of this table and all Latin Americans want all democratic leaders (...) we are respected, today [raises voice] and tomorrow, although we disagree deeply about the ideas we have.
[Applause]
- Chávez: The government of Venezuela reserves the right to respond to any aggression anywhere, in any space and in any key.

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