"Everybody kept asking me: 'When is it going to be your turn?'" At the time Ignacio Montoya Carlotto still believed he was Ignacio Hurban, the only son of Juana and Clemente Hurban, a couple of humble rural workers who lived near the city of Olavarría on a farm belonging to Francisco Aguilar, a well-to-do, conservative landowner who died last year.
His constituent-assembly plan echoes the one Mr Chávez used to consolidate his power and Bolivia's project to "refound" the country".Everyone thinks he's Chávez and he's not," says Juana Ordóñez of Multiplica, an economic consultancy.
The De Juana affair has proved to be a political gift for the PP leader, Mariano Rajoy.
Few cared if he became a separatist martyr.Mr De Juana, who had previously served a long prison term for 25 killings, is now in the comfort of a hospital bed in the Basque country and will soon go home.
Spanish courtiers returned home shocked at their hosts' booze-soaked, lax morals and Juana eventually went mad.
Polls say that 59% wanted Mr De Juana kept under lock and key.
The De Juana case was the second big test of Mr Zapatero's resolve to talk peace.
AS HER family has for generations past, Juana Vásquez gets up before dawn to move her herd of alpacas, now more than a thousand strong, from their pens to pasture on the high plains near Puno, some 4,400 metres (14,400 feet) above sea level in southern Peru.
Mr Zapatero's decision to release Mr De Juana has similarly stopped Spaniards from taking in the news that the economy racked up 3.9% growth in 2006, the fastest since 2000.With the dead from the train bombings and from four decades of ETA violence at the heart of such an emotive debate, the political temperature in Spain is rising.
IN 1496 a Spanish infanta, Juana of Castile, sailed with 15,000 men to the Habsburg Netherlands to marry Philip the Handsome.
