The Venezuelan Carlos Baute, singer and telenovela actor, stirred up Madrid's Puerta del Sol a week ago. "Out with the monkey!", he shouted, joining the crowd that had gathered to applaud the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado. The words, which referred to the interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, caused him more than one headache due to the racism they exuded, for which he, finally, apologized. The methods are new, but the premise is not.