Bush will get a 'warm reception' in Brazil

[ck4829]

Landless farmers invaded a mine, a bank and other corporate property in Brazil on Wednesday to protest the impact of big companies on the poor and President Bush's visit to Latin America's largest nation.

Protesters, most of them women from the Via Campesina farmworkers movement, briefly shut down an iron ore mine, invaded an ethanol distillery and took over the Rio de Janeiro offices of Brazil's National Development Bank on the eve of Bush's visit.

Fresh graffiti reading "Get Out, Bush! Assassin!" in bright red letters popped up along busy highways near the locations in Sao Paulo where Bush will appear as he kicks off a five-nation Latin American tour.

Protest leaders plan to draw as many as 15,000 people for a two-mile march Thursday before Bush arrives in South America's largest city to forge an ethanol energy alliance with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_bush_protests

[Cha]

1. Yeah, I hope it's really

Hot!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Warm?

From the burning effigies and the torches the demonstrators will be carrying along with their pitchforks?

[JuniperLea]

3. Cheney and Rove can't control the entire world

Thankfully!

:toast:

I toast our South American neighbors!

When my baby
When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio
De Janeiro, my-oh-me-oh
I go wild and then I have to do the Samba
And La Bamba
Now I'm not the kind of person
With a passionate persuasion for dancin'
Or roma-ancin'
But I give in to the rhythm
And my feet follow the beatin' of my hear-eart

[Hawkeye-X]

4. 'warm reception'? 7 million Brazillians peeing on him?

I'd love that.

[JuniperLea]

6. Mental image!

Sweet peein' Brazillians! Wooot!


How about one of those stickers for the car's rear window?

[karlrschneider]

5. Well, it's late summer there, is 120C too much to hope for?

heh heh heh

[dflprincess]

7. I wonder if he'll be looking up any of the families of Prescott's old friends

while he's in Brazil?

[Kahuna]

8. The Rodney Dangerfield of 'American Presidents. He gets no respect..

nt

[WI_DEM]

9. and deservedly so