Mexican Paper Criticizes
Spanish Attacks on
Chavez
For the second day in a
row, the Mexican
newspaper La Jornada
criticized the attacks
by Spanish King Juan
Carlos I and President
Jose Luis Rodriguez
Zapatero on Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez.
Columnist Carlos
Fernandez-Vega said in
an article that monarchy
is not precisely the
best face of democracy,
and the best defense of
the latter cannot come
from the former.
The journalist wondered
what Spain is doing with
King Juan Carlos heading
the State, and added
that only the Spaniards'
balances or political
inertias could provide a
fairly believable
answer.
It is understood that
the king defends one of
its favorite subjects,
Jose Maria Aznar,
because they come from
the same school,
Franco's regime, but it
is incredible that
Zapatero, who calls
himself a socialist,
defends such a terrible
person, he said.
Fernandez-Vega added
that Aznar is a fascist
in Mexico, in Spain, in
Venezuela, or wherever
he may be, and Spain was
involved in the invasion
of Iraq, although an
overwhelming majority of
its people rejected it,
because of him.
From the government,
Aznar was the White
House's accomplice to
the failed coup d'etat
against Chavez, as
incumbent Spanish
Foreign Minister Miguel
Angel Moratinos
acknowledged a few years
ago, the journalist
added.
He wondered whether King
Juan Carlos and Zapatero
defend Aznar's coup
ethics or the kingdom's
"right" to interfere
wherever it deems
convenient.
If the king does not
know that his government
is cooking a coup d'etat
in a third country, then
what is he doing there?
And if he knows and does
not prevent it, what is
he demanding?
Fernandez-Vega stressed. |
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