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Guatemalans Repudiate Bush Visit
With a concentration in front of
the US Embassy in this capital,
demonstrations for rejection to
the next visit of US President
George W. Bush to Guatemala,
started Saturday.
During the protest, convoked by
the Madreselva Group and
newspaper La Cuerda, there will
be mottos against massive
deportations, the Free Trade
Agreement and the presence of US
troops in the Guatemalan
national territory.
"We don"t have any motives to
congratulate each other when we
have been witnesses of the US
policy fostered by Bush with
massive deportation and
prosecution of Latin Americans,"
said a communiqué by the
Anti-Imperialist Block.
Only last year, US sent more
than 18,000 Guatemalans back to
their native country, and in the
two first months of 2007, the
number went over 2,000 people.
Defending organizations for the
rights of migrants, students,
farmers, indigenous people,
women and trade unions will join
to the protests.
The March 8 traditional march
for the Women"s International
Day will have among its
objectives to reject the
presence of Bush, FTA,
neoliberalism and violence.
Meanwhile, for March 10, a walk
starting from a zone known as El
Trebol, south of Guatemala City,
will go through the US Embassy
and end in the Central Park.
Orlando Blanco, from the
Collective of Social
Organizations (COS), said in
recent statements that Bush was
not welcome in Guatemala, and
the role of the US
administration has been very
harmful and during it, attacks
against several peoples in
different places of the planet
have taken place.
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