Hundreds protest Bush visit in Brazil

[Judi Lynn]

Hundreds protest Bush visit in Brazil
Posted at 8:55am on 6 Nov 2005

Hundreds of protesters have marched in downtown Sao Paulo against the US President George Bush's upcoming visit to Brazil.

An estimated 1,000 people marched down the city's main avenue ahead of President's Bush's visit to the capital, Brasilia.

The protest follows violent scenes in Argentina yesterday, where demonstrators clashed with police outside the 34-nation Summit of the Americas.
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/bulletins/radionz/200511060855/286d0d0a
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9:53 pm

Violent protest in Uruguay
11/4/2005 9:11 PM
By: The Associated Press

The anti-American protests that began in Argentina have now spread elsewhere in South America. Protesters in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo have chanted anti-Bush slogans while attacking banks and shops.
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http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=155854
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6 November 2005
BUSH IN FREE TRADE ARGIE BARGY
Rioters face tear gas as they target summit
By Dan Molinski
ANTI-AMERICAN protesters rioted as US President George Bush held summit talks in Argentina.
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Violence also flared 250 miles away in the capital Buenos Aires, where an American-owned bank and a branch of Mc Donald's were torched.

And there were anti-US protests in neighbouring Uruguay.

Mar del Plata mayor Daniel Katz said: "What I'm most upset about is that I'll bet you Bush wasn't even told about the riot."
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http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=155854
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8:48pm (UK)
Summit's protesters claim victory

Anti-American demonstrators who marched peacefully against the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata Argentina declared their week-long efforts a triumph.
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Meanwhile, in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, hooded protesters chanting anti-Bush slogans attacked a series of bank buildings, shops and shattered windows in an outburst swiftly quelled by riot police.

Uruguayan Interior Minister Jose Diaz said the government ended that protest in Montevideo's historic colonial centre by detaining suspected members of leftist extremist groups. He reported six injuries and 15 arrests.
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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2202262005

[tularetom]

1. What I wanna know is

Were any blacks among the protesters? In fact are there any blacks in Brazil?:sarcasm:

[Aimah]

13. Do you wonder when Bush sees blacks..

will he think that the NAACP shipped them in just to agitate him.

[malaise]

16. hehehehhehehe

:rofl: :rofl:

[maryallen]

2. Bush's Trifecta must have run out ....

[thinkingwoman]

3. Oh no! Brazillian protestors!

Poor Bush is going to have to ask his handlers how many that is. :eyes:

[jimshoes]

5. Mr. president,

there's a hundred brazillian protesters outside!

[Zynx]

27. Good lord! How many is that anyway?

[951-Riverside]

4. Oh No! Things were going so great in Argentina

How dare these people not support our troops! :sarcasm: :crazy:

[Orrin_73]

6. No one love's him

how might that be :sarcasm:

[Judi Lynn]

7. If you wonder who the women with white scarves were in protest photos

they are the relatives of people who disappeared during the military dictatorship, which was supported by the U.S., and which ALSO took current Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner as a political prisoner, and tortured him. He was tortured by the same group of people in Argentina _Bush's party supported to the max.

UPDATED: 12:13, November 04, 2005
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo protest against Bush's visit

Members of the human rights group, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo of Argentina, protested against the arrival of US President George W. Bush in the country on Thursday.

They held a banner which read "Bush out" in Spanish near the venue of the 4th Summit of the Americas at the tourist resort of Mar del Plata, 400 km south of the capital Buenos Aires.

"Bush is repugnant, and we are here in a show of repudiation for his government," said Hebe de Bonafini, leader of the human rights group, wearing the trademark white scarf.

She described Bush as a murderer, miserable hypocrite and terrorist.

The aging mothers, now embracing a variety of causes, have been marching every week for 28 years to demand the punishment of those who are accountable for the disappearance of their sons and daughters during the military dictatorship of 1976-1983 in Argentina.
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http://english.people.com.cn/200511/04/eng20051104_219019.html

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KISSINGER TO THE ARGENTINE GENERALS IN 1976:

"IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE, YOU SHOULD DO THEM QUICKLY"

Newly declassified document shows Secretary of State
gave strong support early on to the military junta

While military dictatorship committed massive human rights abuses in 1976,
Secretary Kissinger advised: "you should get back quickly to normal procedures."

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 133

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At a time when the international community, the U.S. media, universities, and scientific institutions, the U.S. Congress, and even the U.S. Embassy in Argentina were clamoring about the indiscriminate human rights violations against scientists, labor leaders, students, and politicians by the Argentine military, Secretary Kissinger told Guzzetti: "We are aware you are in a difficult period. It is a curious time, when political, criminal, and terrorist activities tend to merge without any clear separation. We understand you must establish authority."

Only two weeks earlier, on May 28, Ambassador Robert Hill had presented a U.S. demarche on human rights to Admiral Guzzetti. The Embassy was deeply concerned about the kidnapping and torture of three American women, among them the Fulbright coordinator for Argentina, Elida Messina, and the wave of attacks against political refugees from the Southern Cone. In contrast to Hill's efforts, according to the memorandum of conversation Secretary Kissinger told Guzzetti:"In the United States we have strong domestic pressures to do something on human rights… We want you to succeed. We do not want to harrass you. I will do what I can…."

Another document recently unearthed by the National Security Archive and posted for the first time here, shows that on July 9, 1976, Secretary Kissinger was explicitly briefed on the rampant repression taking place in Argentina: "Their theory is that they can use the Chilean method," Kissinger's top aide on Latin America Harry Shlaudeman informed him, "that is, to terrorize the opposition - even killing priests and nuns and others."

Documents published earlier by the National Security Archive show that in September 1976 Ambassador Hill complained again to Guzzetti about the astounding human rights violations occurring in Argentina. Guzzetti rebuffed him saying that, "When he had seen SECY of State Kissinger in Santiago, the latter had said he 'hoped the Argentine Govt could get the terrorist problem under control as quickly as possible.' Guzzetti said that he had reported this to President Videla and to the cabinet, and that their impression had been that the USG's overriding concern was not human rights but rather that GOA "get it over quickly."
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB133/index.htm

[IndianaGreen]

11. "repugnant"... "murderer"... "miserable hypocrite"..."terrorist"

Argentines are singing and dancing in the streets!

Bush is the most hated world leader since the Third Reich, and he is bringing our nation down with him, just as Hitler did Germany.

[0007]

15. Thank you Judi Lynn for the two links and the

explanation of the ladies in white scarves. Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

"The aging mothers, now embracing a variety of causes, have been marching every week for 28 years to demand the punishment of those who are accountable for the disappearance of their sons and daughters during the military dictatorship of 1976-1983 in Argentina."

http://english.people.com.cn/200511/04/eng20051104_2190...

[Cha]

25. bush Is "Repugnant"! With a capital R!

How sad to be part of a country with such atrocities in their column.

Did bush really think he could go down there and wow them with his "charm"? :puke:

[DesertRat]

8. They hate us for our freedom

:sarcasm:

[lebkuchen]

9. Had Bush ventured out of the US since the Mainz, Germany protests?

I think I had said then that Bush could not go anywhere outside the US for the rest of his presidency without facing large demonstrations, that he would have to "nest" in the US for the next 3-4 years. Americans are only just catching up with the high level of anti-Bush sentiment that predominates the rest of the world.

I'm surprised Bush even made this trip to S. America. Unless events in the US worsen for him, he will never make a successful foreign policy trip anywhere in the world, so he may as well do what he does best--bag rays and cut down trees in his own backyard.

[IndianaGreen]

10. There isn't a place on this planet where Bush can be safe

No matter where he goes, there will always be people demonstrating against this cowardly war criminal.

[Porcupine]

19. George Bush must be kept 2000 feet away from free people!!!

Everybody he ever sees now will be under explicit military ro police threat.

The most hated man in the world.

[ninkasi]

22. I hope this doesn't stop even when he's out of office

I truly hope that for the rest of his miserable, twisted life, he will be hounded and protested wherever he goes. If anybody deserves to be confronted with protesters, it is Bush. He has caused unmanageable harm to the earth and to the people who inhabit it.

I hope he never has another day where he is not reminded of the hatred and contempt he has earned. I hope it follows him, like the stench of corruption follows a rotting corpse. I hope his life is long, too, so that he has many, many years to be reminded of his crimes.

[IndianaGreen]

23. Bush, Cheney and Co. should be prosecuted for their crimes

They should be prosecuted either in the US, where they can get the death penalty, or at the International Crimes Court at The Hague where there is no death penalty.

No pardons!

[Tomee450]

12. This is so sad. Has there

ever been an American president so hated by the rest of the world? I wonder if he is aware of just how much he is disliked. I really feel bad for this country. It used to be thought of so highly. Now most of the world looks at the US in disdain.

[IndianaGreen]

24. The US is as hated as the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot

The world sees America as a rogue terrorist state that threatens the world's peace with her nukes and the criminal cabal in power.

[texpatriot2004]

14. Gee, so how will the corporate media spin the protests this time?

Hint: They are ALL protesting BUSH!

[Toots]

17. How long before no nation will allow Bush* to visit for fear of Unrest

It has to be very expensive to patrol the streets and maintain order all because of a person universally despised around the world. Why would a country put itself through such an ordeal? Bush* is not considered credible anyway. Why even allow him to enter their country?

[zanne]

18. Now why isn't the media showing us this demonstration?

Because it's peaceful?

[lonestarnot]

20. Every place he goes he fucks up the place, he is a veritable shit storm!

[loudsue]

21. There have been countries that tried to discourage a visit from bush

and he just kept inviting himself. All these countries are going to finally have to tell bush that, if he steps foot on their soil, he'll be arrested. Maybe THAT will finally get it through to him that he's just not welcome in other countries. Even the Brittish Royals weren't happy about him visiting there.

:kick:

[maryallen]

26. Thousands is more like it!