Commoners are saved by the bell and some monarchs are saved thanks to a deaf ear. "Lucky of Don Juan Carlos, because Indian Chávez did not listen to him. I do not know what I would have told him. But, rest assured, I had put the King on his place," promised President Hugo Chávez when recalling one more time the event in Chile, during an exclusive press conference with the foreign media.

"I have never sought any conflict with the King or anybody." As soon as he made this remark, the head of state spoke loud and clear to be listened on the other side of the Atlantic. "If the rightwing wins (in Spain,) then Spaniards should forget about it and get out of here. We do not need Spain's investments."

Chávez warned that if the People's party gets the support of Spanish voters to take office, he would proceed to nationalize the banks procured by Spanish investors.

"If the Spanish rightwing takes office, give me my bank, compadre. Michel (Gouguikian, the president of Banco de Venezuela), I know you are worried. Michel, beg God that Zapatero wins again," Chávez noted.