[NYTr] "onarchy Is Not the Best Face of Democracy" - La Jornada Tells Spain

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Mexican Paper Criticizes Spanish Attacks on Chavez

Mexico, Nov 12 (Prensa Latina) 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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