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Angry crowds hunt Bush as protests mark start of Latin American tour

· Brazilians take to streets with effigies and abuse
· Presidents cement alliance that many do not want

Tom Phillips in Sao Paulo
Saturday March 10, 2007
The Guardian

Some arrived clutching banners telling "Mr Butcher" to go home. Others
brought effigies of "The Warlord" dangling miserably from a hangman's noose.
A handful dressed up as the grim reaper, while some women paraded through
the streets with stickers of George Bush and Adolf Hitler placed tastefully
over their nipples.

Fabio Silva had other ideas. He stuffed a sock into his mouth and left it
there for three hours. "It means that the Brazilian authorities have tried
to censor us - to pretend to Bushy that we don't exist," said the
21-year-old student, using the president's nickname in these parts after
briefly removing his gag. "It means that we are remembering the silent
victims of Iraq. And it means that the censorship will not shut me up."

If President Bush needed a reminder of his growing unpopularity in Latin
America, it was here in Sao Paulo in the shape of a 10,000-strong human wave
marching noisily through the financial district.

There was none of the famed Brazilian hospitality. Even before Mr Bush
arrived in Brazil on Thursday to begin a six-day tour of Latin America the
protesters were out en masse. "Persona non grata" read one placard. "Get out
you Nazi" said another. In case the message still hadn't hit home, there was
one other taunt - this time in English: "Bush, kill yourself."

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