The Spanish-Venezuelan diplomatic relationship took a turn for the worse at the weekend after Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's socialist revolutionary leader, described the former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist" at the Ibero-American summit in Chile.
The Spanish king, Juan Carlos, then "flashed a withering look" at the Venezuelan president when he was in mid-harangue and "uttered five words likely to go down in diplomatic history: why don't you shut up?" It worked, says the paper, for about two seconds. And Hugo Chavez's retort? "The king is a head of state like me, only I have been elected three times with 63% support."
This is an edited extract from the Wrap, our digest of the daily papers.
