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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: Bush to push free trade as key to growth |
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Amid violent anti-US protests, Bush to push free trade as key to growth
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AFP) - US President George W. Bush was set to discuss languishing free trade talks with divided Latin leaders at the 34-nation Summit of the Americas here.
Bush has been buffeted by anti-US protests and dogged resistance to his bid for pan-American free trade.
Riot police fired tear gas on the gathering's first day Friday as demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails, lit bonfires and smashed shop windows outside the plush hotel where leaders were meeting in this Atlantic resort city.
Hundreds of protesters in ski-masks confronted police after a larger group of some 40,000 rallied peacefully at a football stadium to voice their anger at Bush's foreign and economic policies.
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