Spanish radio's apology ends row over spoof call
Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:28 PM GMT
MADRID (Reuters) - A church-controlled radio station apologised on Friday for a stunt in which a radio comic posing as Spain's prime minister called Bolivia's future president, sparking a row involving Spain, Bolivia and the Vatican.
Spain and Bolivia accepted the apology by Cope radio, whose comic, pretending to be Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, telephoned Evo Morales and implied that Bolivia and Spain would join a left-wing axis involving Cuba and Venezuela.
"We are sincerely happy that you are triumphantly joining the new order that we wish to set up in Spain and Latin America, Evo," the spoof Zapatero said, after congratulating Morales on winning last weekend's Bolivian election.
Cope, owned by the Spanish Bishops' Conference, is strongly critical of the policies of Spain's Socialist government.
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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-12-23T212909Z_01_SIB377240_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-SPAIN-BOLIVIA.XML~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Not content to rest with the triumph of the Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Church Radio goes after leftist leaders. Smooth.