Modern Day Conquistadors Defend Aznar

There is little doubt that Spanish politicians have nothing but contempt for Latin Americans, they tend to see the inhabitants of Latin America as some sort of underdeveloped infants that made a huge mistake when they decided to go their own way and declare independence from the only source of enlightenment they ever knew, the advanced and God blessed Spain.

So earlier today two of them decided to become the champions for one of Spain's must hated politicians, José María Aznar.

From Juan Carlos Borbón we can understand it, he is after all as much of a byproduct of Francisco Franco's regime as Aznar. But to get Zapatero to defend the mustached midget and demand that he is not called a fascist that is beyond understanding.

Here you have the note by Yahoo News:

Spain's king tells Venezuela's Chavez to "shut up"

By Manuel Farias and Pav Jordan

Sat Nov 10, 3:59 PM ET

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.

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."

Now, lets see; Zapatero estates that they were taking part of a forum for democratic governments, why then didn't he asked Juan Carlos Borbón to shut up, after all, Chavez is an elected president while Borbón is a king imposed by a fascist dictator by the name of Francisco Franco?

He demands from Chavez to refrain from calling Aznar a fascist, yet, Aznar is a fascist by all accounts, he is the ideological heir to Franco's regime, the same regime that had Zapatero's grandfather executed for his political ideals.

Which political ideas?

Well, Zapatero, like his grandfather before him, claims to be a socialist, at least he belongs to a political party that is supposed to be socialist, meaning that Zapatero is a leftist just like the majority of the Latin American leaders as the article mentions. But this is where Zapatero draws a distinction, he is a Spaniard before being a socialist/leftist, so he sides with the member of a monarchy who happens to be Spaniard too and together they defend the honor of a third Spaniard.

And they do so because as Spaniards they can not allow for a third world fella with a brown skin to belittle a conational.

And that Mr. Zapatero is called racism, no wonder why this woe is on the rise in Spain.

Shame on you Zapatero, for siding with a king imposed by a tyrant to defend a fascist in front of a group of people that you consider inferior to you and your fellow Spaniards.

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