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 News from Around the Americas | October 2005 
Brazilians Stage Anti-American Demonstration Ahead of Bush Visit
 AFP
| | Brazilian Landless Movement activists burn a US flag and goods in front of the US embassy in Brasilia, May 2005. Ten days ahead of US President George W. Bush's visit here, thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to demonstrate against US foreign policy, with protest organizers promising more to come. (AFP/File/Evaristo Sa) |
Ten days ahead of US President George W. Bush's visit here, thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to demonstrate against US foreign policy, with protest organizers promising more to come.
Protesters gathered outside the US Embassy on Wednesday, pelting the building with small wooden crosses, a symbol, one of the demonstrators said, "of the deaths US-led wars and economic policies have caused worldwide."
Surrounded by police and shouting "Public Enemy Number One", and "Bush out, IMF out", referring to the International Monetary Fund, the demonstrators then made their way to the Brazilian Foreign Ministry to protest Brazil's participation in the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti.
The ruling Workers' Party of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called for more demonstrations during Bush's visit to Brazil on November 5 and 6, after he attends the Summit of the Americas in Argentina on November 3-5.
After Brazil, Bush will visit Panama November 6-7 for a meeting with President Martin Torrijos Espino. |
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