From Al-Jazeera --
Spain's King Juan Carlos has told Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, to "shut up" in front of leaders at an Ibero-American summit in Chile.
"Why don't you shut up?" the king shouted at Chavez on Saturday when he tried to interrupt a speech by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister.
Zapatero was in the middle of a speech at the close of the summit of mostly leftist leaders from Latin America, Portugal, Spain and Andorra, and criticised Chavez for calling Jose Maria Aznar, Spain's former prime minister, a fascist.
Zapatero, a socialist, told the leaders gathered in the Chilean capital, Santiago: "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.
"You can disagree radically, without being disrespectful," Zapatero, a socialist, said sternly, drawing applause from some of the other heads of state. More....
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