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Argentina in the Streets Against Bush and the FTAA

05.11.2005 18:12 | Globalisation | World

Argentina Indymedia is providing independent coverage from the streets of Mar Del Plata where the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) Summit of the Americas is currently being held. Tens of thousands of protestors have shown up there in opposition to war criminal George Bush and the U.S.-backed destructive economic policies he represents. Check out San Diego Indymedia for English-language translations.


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The President Has No One to Reason Him

08.11.2005 12:43

In the early 1960’s a young Columbian journalist named G. Garcia Marquez wrote “The Colonel Has No One to Write Him” the poetic tale of a failed leader who goes each Friday to the same post office to see if a long-awaited letter bringing some good news has finally arrived.

This novel was to become a great classic amongst Latin America’s famed “poetic magic” literary school…and a highly prescient metaphor for Dubya’s pathetic presidency!

The man they call “El Jorge” south of the Rio Grande who once said “Mi Casa Blanca es tu Casa Blanca” in an outlandish bid to gratify Hispanic voters was in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on Friday to attend the opening session of the “hemispheric” Summit of the Americas: he was greeted by tens of thousands of angry Argentines who chanted "Get out, Bush!" and "You are the terrorist!" among other niceties…

By evening, massive riots were reported in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, where students and workers set fire to several McDonald's restaurants.

"It is not easy to host all these countries at the same time" said Bush as he appeared before reporters after their morning meeting. "It's particularly not easy to host, perhaps, me!" [sic/sick]

Dr Victorino de la Vega
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