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Bush faces mass protests, opposition to trade pact in Argentina

The two-day quadrennial Summit of the Americas being held in the Argentine seaside resort of Mar del Plata Nov. 4-5 will be marked by one of the largest demonstrations in the country’s history—called to repudiate the policies of the Bush administration.

Wracked by multiple political crises at home and receiving the lowest approval rating for any recent US president, George W. Bush is leaving the country Thursday to face an even more hostile audience. The two-day quadrennial Summit of the Americas being held in the Argentine seaside resort of Mar del Plata Nov. 4-5 will be marked by one of the largest demonstrations in the country’s history—called to repudiate the policies of the Bush administration. On the eve of the summit, the Argentine daily Pagina 12 reported a poll showing that six out of ten Argentines oppose Bush’s presence in the country. By contrast, 75 percent welcomed the visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who has been vilified by Washington and has in turn denounced US foreign policy. Protests began yesterday over the Bush visit—three days before his arrival—with blockades of bridges and highways in the Buenos Aires area and the appearance of posters throughout the Argentine capital bearing the slogans “Stop Bush” and “Fuera Bush,” in some cases superimposed over photographs of wounded Iraqi children. Nor are the protests limited to Argentina. Last Wednesday, some 6,000 people marched on the US Embassy in Brasilia in an anti-Bush protest. The US president is scheduled to visit the Brazilian capital following the summit, going from there to a stop in Panama before returning to Washington. The presence of the US president in Argentina has been preceded by the imposition of a massive security clampdown. An army of 7,000 additional police has been deployed in the resort city, which has been divided with three concentric circles of chain-linked fencing. Residents of the area surrounding the summit site have been identified and provided with passes to enter and leave their own homes. “We’ve been imprisoned,” one of them told a local television network. A 100-mile no-fly zone has been declared surrounding the city, with orders to shoot down unidentified planes. In addition to the blanket of security imposed by the Argentine government, Bush is arriving with an entourage of some 2,000, much of it composed of security personnel. Last Friday, two giant US military cargo planes arrived in Buenos Aires carrying large quantities of arms and two helicopters for use in guarding the US president. On Friday a mass march expected to draw as many as 100,000 people will take place in Mar del Plata. Leading it will be popular football star Diego Maradona and Argentine Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Bush is “a torturer, violator of human rights, an assassin, a violator of United Nations resolutions, of international treaties and of the sovereignty of peoples, as has happened in Iraq,” Pérez Esquivel said in a radio interview Saturday explaining his participation. Maradona, who now hosts one of Argentina’s most popular television shows, said, “In Argentina, there are people who are against Bush being there. I am the first. He did us a lot of harm. As far as I’m concerned, he is a murderer; he looks down on us and tramples over us. I am going to lead that march along with my daughter.” Also participating in the march will be Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a US soldier slain in Iraq, and Javier Couso, the brother of the Spanish television cameraman who was killed when an American tank fired on the Hotel Palestine, the headquarters of international journalists, during the US storming of Baghdad in April 2003.

A riot in one of the suburbs of Buenos Aires last Monday against the privatization of the public traffic. The denationalized trains for example now more expensive, but poor and late as before the privatization.

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AP (news agency) wrote y'day (11.2): S. Korea May Extend Iraq Troop Deployment South Korea's defense minister said Wednesday that his ministry would ask parliament to extend the deployment of South Korean troops in Iraq for another year. ``We plan to submit the bill to the National Assembly within this month,'' Yoon Kwang-ung told reporters, according to his ministry. South Korea has deployed 3,200 troops in northern Iraq to help U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country, making Seoul the largest U.S. coalition partner in Iraq after Britain. The troop deployment is unpopular among South Koreans due mainly to security concerns. In June 2004, Islamic insurgents in Iraq beheaded a South Korean civilian working in Iraq after South Korea rejected demands to withdraw its troops. The South Korean government believes the deployment will help strengthen the Seoul-Washington alliance, also helping resolve the dispute over North Korea's nuclear arms program. In December 2004, the South Korean parliament approved a government request to extend the troop deployment in Iraq for another year. The term of the current deployment is set to expire at the end of 2005.

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This was written in today's Korea Herald (11.2): Police bar activists from country Police have barred 998 members of some 20 citizens' organizations around the world from entering the country to prevent protests during the APEC summit in Busan this month. The banned people have records of staging anti-globalization protests during past Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summits, the National Police Agency said as it continued preparations to clear the way for APEC meetings Nov. 12-19... ... Police have also compiled a list for the Immigration Office of another 400 foreigners who are likely to stage protests based on past records of activism. Immigration officials will inform police when any of the 400 enter the country and their activities will be monitored closely, a police official said. Police are also planning to distribute an announcement to foreigners entering the country that protests or demonstrations are prohibited during their stay, and that they may be forced to leave the country or be penalized if they ignore the warning. ... The entire article you can (but you must not..) readhere. Korea Times wrote that. And ...JoongAng Ilbo will write in its tomorrow's edition: 998 activists barred from entry here November 03, 2005 ㅡ The Korean National Policy Agency said yesterday it has banned 998 people from entering Korea before and during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Busan later this month. Those barred, police said, have all been convicted of crimes stemming from anti-globalization demonstrations elsewhere. The Justice Ministry, which oversees the national police and Korea's immigration bureau, can bar entry to Korea "in the national interest." Sources familiar with the list say those on it belong to one or more of 20 groups that have sent protesters to meetings of APEC, the World Trade Organization, or other international bodies trying to advance free trade. The police have a second list of 398 persons who will be allowed to enter Korea but will be watched closely if they do so. Korea's own activists will be busy. Anti-globalization forces here claimed they would mobilize up to 100,000 protesters in Busan. The police said they would warn foreigners entering the country this month about the penalties they could face if they engage in illegal picketing or demonstrations. That warning, in four languages, will be handed out to arriving passengers at Korea's ports. Korea's security services say they are confident that they can keep protests under control and counter any attempts to disrupt the APEC meetings. They have been talking with Korean civic groups for several months, they said, to agree on designated areas where protest rallies will be allowed.

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Bourgeois KOREA TIMES wrote on 10.25:

 

Pusan Steps Up Security Measures Ahead of APEC Pusan City is upping security measures ahead of the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, limiting political gatherings and rallies in major venues. The city plans to close schools Nov. 18-19, when the 21 heads of APEC member states hold a summit. ``To secure the safety of guests participating in the APEC forum, we will designate Haewoondae Beach, the Somyon area, Kimhae Airport and the Tongnae hot springs area as special security zones where monitoring will be strengthened,’’ said Eo Cheong-soo, director of the Pusan metropolitan police agency, during a news conference Monday. City authorities will deploy more police to look over the designated areas and prohibit political gatherings and rallies within 1.5 kilometers of the areas. ``The objective is to provide APEC guests with a safe environment to share their ideas and make it easy to move around. We have no intention to stop peaceful gatherings during the forum, except for around these areas,’’ Eo said. The Pusan city government also plans to strengthen its crackdown on illegal immigrants ahead of the APEC forum. More than 1,700 law enforcement officials were deployed yesterday to search for illegal immigrants or foreign visitors with suspicious behavior...

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