Tight security in Brazil for Bush

[Judi Lynn]

Last Updated: Thursday, 8 March 2007, 14:57 GMT

Tight security in Brazil for Bush

Brazilian security have thrown a cordon around Mr Bush's hotel
Thousands of police and soldiers have been deployed across the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo ahead of a visit by US President George W Bush.
Anti-aircraft guns have been brought in and the streets around the hotel where he is staying have been closed.

Mr Bush will also visit Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico in a week-long tour aimed at strengthening US ties with Latin America.

On Monday Mr Bush announced an aid programme for the region worth $385m.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6430951.stm

[Skittles]

1. are there a brazillion protesters?

they put America to shame

[Ian David]

2. Is he going to Brazil to check on the progress of his clones? n/t

[Aviation Pro]

5. "The boys? From Brazil."

[oblivious]

3. There's something unseemly about the most powerful man on earth living in such fear.

[LSparkle]

4. Oh boy -- here we go, another round of protests and jet-lagged pressers

His "command" of the English language REALLY suffers when he goes overseas ....

teeheeeheeheeehheeeee

Can't wait!


:rofl:

[leftchick]

6. pics! The brown shirts are beating up the protesters!

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070308/481/xap10103082125

why are they doing this for the fascist boosh?



Brazilian Policemen beat a protester during a march against U.S. President George W. Bush in Sao Paulo, Thursday, March 8, 2007. Bush will visit Brazil March 8-9. (AP Photo/Maurilio Cheli)



Policemen fight demonstrators during a protest against the upcoming visit of US President George W. Bush in Sao Paulo, Thursday, March 8, 2007. President Bush will visit Brazil March 8-9. (AP Photo/Maurilio Cheli)

[Judi Lynn]

9. Thanks for those photos. They're the first ones out, it seems.

No doubt there will be many, many more. Hope our own corporate media will stoop enough to publish them for American readers.

[leftchick]

12. it took forever to find but here is the anti-war protesters link

at yahoo. a lot of protests here in the states as well...

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/031806antiwar/im:/070308/480/mnak10303081621;_ylt=AioFAoqXfXIJRVW88GaOiUNsaMYA

[Judi Lynn]

7. Bush's Latin American Spring Break

Bush's Latin American Spring Break
The president's trip south of the border will do little to sway a region that is demanding fairer economic policies.
by Mark Engler
March 09, 2007

Whether out of a desire to escape his record-low approval ratings at home or a hunger for Mexican tamales and Brazilian rice and beans, George W. Bush is making a run south of the border. This week the president will stop in Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico-making his longest-ever official visit to Latin America. Taking place at a time when feelings of animosity toward the United States are widespread, the tour will serve as Bush's most concerted effort yet to improve relations with the region.

What are the odds that his travels will do anything to reverse anti-yanqui sentiment? Not good. Our neighbors to the south have ample reason to be resentful. They have suffered from a White House approach to Latin America that is based on a fundamentally flawed conception of U.S national interest.

In a speech on Monday, the president contended that his trip will signal a new, more caring attitude toward Latin America and its people, including the large populations that live in poverty. But actions speak louder than words. Few things say more about the Bush administration's outlook on the region than the appointment in February of John Negroponte to Deputy Secretary of State. Negroponte was an ardent Cold Warrior who served as Ambassador to Honduras for a stretch in the 1980s when the country became a haven for death squads and CIA-funded Contra mercenaries. Negroponte's promotion made it ever more clear that Bush policy is being defined by Reaganite reactionaries whose conception of international relations is based on an outdated notion of U.S. power and Latin American acquiescence.
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=20&ItemID=12292

[rodeodance]

8. ....more caring attitude toward Latin America........ DAH!

[rodeodance]

10. AP ........Street protests awaited him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070308/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_latin_america;_ylt=AlF7q0Xnc4XeM8a8SDuTKNKs0NUE

Bush opens 6-day Latin America tour

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

SAO PAULO, Brazil -
President Bush sought to reverse an impression of U.S. neglect as he opened a six-day tour of Latin America on Thursday. Street protests awaited him.

[Doctor_J]

11. The most hated man on Earth

What a disaster for America

[MasonJar]

13. Didn't he have rocket launchers or some such nonsense on Buckingham

Palace? I definitely remember that he ruined the queen's formal English garden, probably centuries old. He requires so much protection everywhere that he breaks the bank in US cities. I'm surprised that anyone invites him; oh, they probably don't. I'll change that to allows him to come. I'm sure that he will never be invited back to England.