Þúsundir mótmæla stefnu Bush í Suður Ameríku

Mar del Plata, Argentina – A hemispheric summit meant to help create jobs and spread democracy throughout the region opened today with large-scale anti-US demonstrations and deep divisions among participating nations about the Bush administration’s expanded free-trade agenda.

Tens of thousands of protesters marched the streets of this seaside resort calling for Bush to be expelled from the country and later cheered when Venezuela President Hugo Chavez labeled Washington’s free-trade program dead and buried.

”Mar del Plata is the tomb of ALCA,” said Chavez, using the Spanish acronym for the Free Trade Area of the Americas plan backed by the White House. “We brought our shovels to bury it,” Chavez said of the plan, which would create a unified trade bloc from Alaska to Argentina.

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