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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

This should be entertaining

Why even bother?

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 1 - If George W. Bush is expecting some respite from his troubles at home during a four-day visit to Argentina and Brazil that begins Thursday, he is in for a very rude awakening.
Polls show Mr. Bush to be the most unpopular American president ever among Latin Americans, and thousands of demonstrators, led by the soccer idol Diego Maradona, are flocking to the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata to protest his presence at a summit meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders. The greeting from his fellow heads of state, who have been complaining of his administration's neglect of and indifference to the region for five years, does not promise to be especially warm, either.

... "Bush is a torturer, a violator of human rights and a murderer, who does not respect United Nations resolutions, international treaties or the sovereignty of peoples, as in the case of Iraq," said Adolfo PĂ©rez Esquivel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is one of the protest organizers. "He is not welcome in Argentina, and he should be repudiated."

1 Comments:

  • At 6:23 PM, Blogger mikevotes said…

    Gotta remember that the people's of Central and South America remember the results of previous US republican administrations.

    Columbia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina. Not to mention the central American or Carribean states. Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba, Haiti....

    They have been on the pointy end of the ambitions of the American empiricists.

    On a less serious note, I hope Maradona is merely a figurehead and not an organizer. He's not really known for handling responsibility well.

     

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