Chávez, Castro and Bush are Spaniards' least valued leaders

Spaniards valued the least Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Cuban Fidel Castro and US President George W. Bush, as opposed to Chilean Michelle Bachelet, who is top in the list of the highly valued, according to the 2007 Latinobarómetro, a survey disseminated on Thursday by the Spanish Sociological Research Center (CIS).

In a scale from 0 to 10, interviewees gave Chávez the lowest score, 1.27; followed by Castro, 1.89, and Bush in the third place, with 1.99.

In the middle of the list are Bolivian President Evo Morales (3.42), Peruvian Alan García (3.93), Ecuadorian Rafael Correa (4.00), Uruguayan Tabaré Vázquez (4.06) and Mexican Felipe Calderón (4.10), Efe reported.

Based on the poll conducted on November 16-25, 2007, with almost 2,500 interviews to female and male adults, the highest valued leaders are Bachelet (4.93), followed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (4.61), Colombian Álvaro Uribe (4.40) and Argentinean Néstor Kirchner

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