Breaking: Abdication of King who told Chavez to “shut up”

June 5, 2014

According to City A.M.:

King Juan Carlos I of Spain, whose abdication was announced today, has been a slightly more relaxed monarch than Queen Elizabeth II.

The King also wasn’t above telling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez “te callas” at at a conference in 2007. The full sentence, “Por que no te callas?” means “Why don’t you shut up”.
Chavez had accused the previous Spanish Prime Minister of being involved in an attempted coup d’etat against him in 2002.

Half a million people downloaded the rebuke as their ringtone around the world after barely a week.

To read the entire article in City A.M., please click here.

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