Thousands Protest Bush In Brazil

[kpete]

Thousands Protest Bush In Brazil
AP | DEB RIECHMANN | March 9, 2007 09:10 AM



President Bush visited a mega fuel depot for tanker trucks Friday to sign a new agreement with Brazil on ethanol as a way to boost alternative fuels production in the Americas. Demonstrators upset with Bush's visit here worry that the president and his biofuels buddy, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, really have visions of an OPEC-like cartel on ethanol.

While Bush's nemesis in Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, is using his vast oil wealth to court allies in the region, Bush was signing the ethanol agreement with Brazil, where nearly eight in 10 new cars run on fuel made from sugar cane.

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Police battled students, environmentalists and left-leaning Brazilians, some waving communist flags, ahead of Bush's visit. Riot police fired tear gas and beat some protesters with batons after more than 6,000 people held a largely peaceful march through the financial district. And in the southern city of Porto Alegre, more than 500 people yelled, "Get out, imperialist!" as they burned an effigy of Bush outside a Citigroup Inc. bank branch.

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[bdamomma]

1. I am glad they are kicking * a$$.