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November 08, 2005
SURPRISE, ANTIAMERICANISM ‘IN THE BACKYARD’
Bitter discovery for Us, phenomenon in Latin America not only in Europe and the Middle East
“Is this a show for our cameras or are they acting seriously?”. This is what Lou Dobbs of the Cnn asked his reporters when he saw the first images of the riots in Mar del Plata. Stars and stripes flags burning outside the building where the FTAA meeting was being held. Italian newspaper “La Stampa” reports Dobbs’ words and describes the scene. The journalist Paolo Mastrolilli, correspondent from NY, explains that protests against Us and president Bush “are getting into Americans’ living rooms through TV”.
The author states that Americans’ were taken by surprise as they are used to seeing similar behaviours only in the Middle East and, after “the invasion of Iraq”, in Europe. “Now this feeling of anger is spreading at their threshold”, goes on the journalist.
According to Mastrolilli, the United States didn’t expect much positive attitudes from the rest of the continent – “Latin America has always looked at them with a mixture of envy and grudge” - but, still, they should have taken into account that some problems would arise. The journalist reminds the readers that the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, who calls Bush ‘Mister Danger’, and his Brasilian colleague Luiz Inácio Lula were at the meeting. Without forgetting the presence of the Argentinian Diego Armando Maradona (a beloved ex football player in Italy) in a Che Guevara new version.
Posted November 8, 2005 09:39 AM
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