A Populist update/apology for my last post

Hugo to Juan Carlos II: "Talk to the hand 'cause the face don't wanna hear it!"

In the name of the Whiskey Revolution, I would like to hereby apologize to my reader(s). My last post was elitist and disrespectful to Hugo Chavez. I should have known that the back-in-three-days leader wouldn't take no lip from nobody, even if they are quite possibly the best King since Ferdinand II.

Al-Jazeera (which has suprisingly good coverage of Latin America), is quoting the Venezuelan President as saying:

"Mr King, did you know about the coup d'etat against Venezuela, against the democratic, legitimate government of Venezuela in 2002?"

Now the King of Spain is a mostly ceremonial post by now, so he probably didn't; but Spain probably did. You never thought that one botched coup could provide so much fun news. It almost makes the reign of Bush II worth it.

The real great thing about Chavez, though, is his possy. I mean, that quote above is a pretty good opening salvo, but leave it to the annonymous Venezuelan man on the street to throw down for el presidente:

"He's insolent. He has to respect a sovereign leader. The king is just a monarch and Spain has been sacking the people of Latin America for the past 500 years.

"President Chavez has more right to say what he pleases than the king because he was elected by the Venezuelan people.

"The king showed a total lack of respect. He wasn't at a nursery school, he was at a summit."

That's gotta burn. Just goes to show that while you may be able to get mad props for restoring democracy after a long dictatorship, you still can't mess with your former colonies. That's just a sore spot that isn't going away. Especially when it is part of the Boliviaran Revolution.

Also, don't mess with soccer fans. Not that it's relevant to the subject at hand, but you can never know when a world leader may be reading this blog.