Bush to visit Latin America in November

[Judi Lynn]

Bush to visit Latin America in November

Reuters
Wednesday, October 5, 2005; 12:03 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, who many Latin Americans criticize for being out of touch with the region's woes, will attend in November a summit of the hemisphere's leaders in Argentina before going to Brazil and Panama.

The White House announced on Wednesday that Bush will go to Argentina November 3-5 to attend his third Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, and to meet Argentine President Nestor Carlos Kirchner.

Bush will visit Brazil on November 5-6 to meet President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Panama on November 6-7 to meet with President Martin Torrijos Espino.

A poll last month by Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, a think tank based in Chile, found that a majority of South Americans in the capitals of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay had a negative opinion of Bush.

They disagreed with the U.S. war on terror and believed the United States was out of touch with the region's problems like corruption, poverty and drug trafficking.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100500892.html
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[XNASA]

1. He will, of course, need to brush up on his Latin.

[louis-t]

2. Tee-hee.

[tom_paine]

3. Sounds like he's going to be lining up torturers and murderers to be

his future Puppet Dictators.

Maybe South America isn't buying what he's selling.

Of course, as the Busheviks well know, in Tyrannized nations, what the people want has little bearing on what is.

Just like Imperial Amerika.

[Missy M]

4. That trip should be interesting, specially with Chavez there....

and bush is out of touch with his own countries problems, no less Latin America's.

[endarkenment]

5. Should be fun trip.

My guess is that he will not be able to appear anywhere in public. Latin America hates us for our freedom.
:sarcasm:

[buff2]

6. I hope they are planning HUGE protests

This should be very interesting. We all know he won't get the red carpet treatment. :evilgrin: I hope there will be the BIGGEST protests he's had so far in a foreign country. We are with them 100%. Time to get the popcorn ready... :popcorn:

[texpatriot2004]

7. Be sure and pack your faulty vest Georgie.

Come down George, come on down, Come down George...

[CGrantt57]

8. In a related story...

Donations are now being taken at 1-800-keepthestupidfuck, to make sure that President Bush STAYS in Latin America.

:evilgrin:

[pinerow]

9. Oh...that should be interesting...

nt

[obreaslan]

10. Didn't Nixon have some problems when he visited South America in 1958?

In Venezuela I believe....

Maybe they will give the Pretzeldent the same treatment. :)

[Say_What]

13. As VP a mob attacked his car in Caracas

Hopefully MonkeyBoy will be as fortunate. Heres some pix. Dontcha just love the *internets*. :-)

[Judi Lynn]

16. Thanks for the photos. Would never have seen these otherwise. N/t

[0007]

21. Great photos! I remembered the trip Nixon took but they sure

didn't show us these photos in those days.

[struggle4progress]

26. Bush travels with an army of bodyguards and snipers.

Media usually doesn't cover the size of his entourage but it's in the thousands.

This trip is gonna waste a lot of fuel ...

[Say_What]

11. More attempt at damage control??

Bush, winning friends and infuencing people. :rofl:

<clips>

Latin American Leaders: Bypass U.S., Look to Europe to Help Build Economies

Latin American opinion leaders favor economic ties to the European Union more than the United States, and believe China is emerging as a significant competitor to the region’s economies, a new survey by Zogby International shows

...Respondents had an overwhelmingly negative view of President Bush’s policies. Asked to compare his policies toward Latin America with those of his predecessors, 50% said they were worse for the region, while just six percent said they were better. Forty-two percent said they were about the same. Mexicans (66%) were most likely to think Bush’s policies made things worse.

Respondents were also highly negative about the Bush administration’s handling of world conflict. Eighty-six percent said they disagreed with the U.S. management of the issue, while just 14 percent agreed. Almost two of every three (61%) said they strongly disagreed with U.S. handling of conflicts around the globe.

Four out of five respondents (81%) gave Mr. Bush a negative overall job approval rating.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1023

[Bob3]

12. oh great - remember the riots when Nixon when there?

I think that will seem tame compared to the reaction to *'s visit.

[SpiralHawk]

14. Yanqui Imperialist Dog - Go Home and take Halliburton with you

They don't need no steenkin AWOL-Aappointeee Macho Posuer.

They got plenty of their own.

[sniffa]

15. "do they stiLL speak Latin?"

[Say_What]

17. Bush: Do you have blacks in Brazil?

...“Do you have blacks, too?”

Rice, 47, noticing how astonished the Brazilian was, saved the day by telling Bush, “Mr. President, Brazil probably has more blacks than the USA. Some say it’s the country with the most blacks outside Africa.” Later, Brazilian President Cardoso said, regarding Latin America, Bush was still in his “learning phase.”

http://www.sfbayview.com/061202/haveblacks061202.html

:rofl:

[alarcojon]

23. Yeah, I was going to mention that

what a frickin dimwit

[Say_What]

18. COHA: Noriega's Latin American Policy A Disservice to the Nation

Good ridance to smelly garbage...

<clips>

...After assuming his post, Noriega fell in line with Reich’s rabid stance regarding Castro, Chávez, and Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and. Both Noriega and Reich saw Aristide’s passionate rhetoric regarding social justice as little more than a born-again Castroism. Noriega’s policy toward Haiti culminated with Aristide’s forced “resignation” in February of 2004, an act which most analysts and area journalists likely view as a U.S. sponsored para-coup with Noriega as the playmaker. Noriega was not only integral in the planning and carrying out of Aristide’s overthrow, but he would later cynically counsel the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Aristide resignation “may eventually be considered his {Noriega’s} finest hour.” Haiti proved to be just one instance of many in which Noriega directed U.S. government resources and personnel to undermine the national interests of a number of Latin American governments with which Noriega had previously crossed swords.

Cuba has proven to be especially sacred ground for Noriega to continue to spread the ideologically-charged rhetoric which had been put into place by Reich after he had been given a recess appointment upon failing to win confirmation. Regarding Cuba, Noriega simply continued to spew the mindless propaganda which he had picked up while working for Gilman, Helms, and Reich, perhaps without it occurring to him that even within the fetid confines of the Bush administration’s regional policies, he might try out new strategies to replace those which had patently failed again and again. Predictably, Noriega served the same mixture of ideological fervor and hyperbole that those two aforementioned legislators had ecstatically concocted on trips to Miami to kiss the Papal ring.

If his definitive role in the death of Haiti’s constitutional government must be considered one of the peaks of Noriega’s disservices to this country’s regional standing, his most recognizable failure as Assistant Secretary of State has to be his attempts to isolate and discredit the Hugo Chávez Frías government in Venezuela. His plan to achieve this was to vehemently gainsay, in ungenerous tones, that Chávez was anything but an authoritarian and a fraud.

In Noriega’s eyes, Chávez’s tainted commitment to democracy and his fatal relationship with Fidel Castro rendered him an unacceptable candidate for normal relations with the U.S Rather than policy maker, Noriega then became a launching pad for unconfirmed, if not entirely spurious, charges that the Venezuelan leader was intent on destabilizing the region by supporting rebels in neighboring Colombia’s civil war, as well as egging on the indigenous populations of Bolivia and Ecuador against their governments. While scripting snarling critiques of the Chávez administration without a sliver of incriminating evidence, Noriega continued Reich’s strategies of trying to subvert the Venezuelan government by funneling funds to opposition groups in the country, whose supposed love of democracy was expressed by their effort to bring Chávez down even if it meant destroying the economy and constitutional norms in the process.

http://www.coha.org/NEW_PRESS_RELEASES/New_Press_Releases_2005/COHA_Opinion_05.23_Noriega%27s_Latin_American_Policy.html


"Why did Condi fire me??"

[bemildred]

20. Thanks, hadn't seen that. nt

[Judi Lynn]

29. This is the finest article I've ever seen on Bush's Latin American policy

I felt I was hallucinating reading these marvellous words. WHY ON EARTH HAS NO ONE ELSE WRITTEN THESE THINGS, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE? Our corporate media outlets simply pass on Roger's vile poison as if it were the next installment of the Bible. They never challenge or even check on any of this crap.

I especially love this part from your article, as it needs to get the attention of a poster who made this Noriega charge against Hugo Chavez only Monday on another thread:

Noriega then became a launching pad for unconfirmed, if not entirely spurious, charges that the Venezuelan leader was intent on destabilizing the region by supporting rebels in neighboring Colombia’s civil war.....
(snip/...)

May God bless this post! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Your Roger photo never looked more lovely. I'm sure his boss, Otto Reich would agree.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Great. Someone else to have PO'd at us.

Bush will tick someone off down there.

[mzteris]

22. do they have extradition? n/t

[HuffleClaw]

24. no way will he actually show up

they'll later discover a 'scheduling conflict' or some other bogus excuse and he'll send some shmo in his place. he wouldn't get a warm welcome if he did show.

[NYC Liberal]

25. Bush will wow the crowd by speaking his special blend of

English and Spanish.

He always tries to speak it here, but he can only say like 2 lines and even then he fucks it up.

[Matilda]

27. I guess he'll travel in his usual sanitized bubble,

and all the people will be told to stay indoors. He'll see nothing
and learn nothing.

[IndianaGreen]

28. Does anyone remember what happened in 1958 to Nixon in Caracas?

This is the classic Ugly American incident that we all love to see repeated. Here a mob attacks Nixon's motorcade in Caracas:



and they kicked his limo:



here is Nixon's limo after the friendly welcome from crowds singing and dancing in the streets:



All the pictures are here:

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/nixon.htm