Answering Latin Left, Bush Pledges to Help Poor
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The presidentâs Latin American tour represented an urgent attempt to stave off growing anti-American sentiment in the region.
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He talked of grinding poverty and called it "a scandal" that democracy and capitalism have not delivered more to Latin Americans. The working poor need change, he declared. He invoked Simon Bolivar, the "great liberator," and vowed to "complete the revolution" and bring true "social justice" to the region...
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SANTA CRUZ BALANYA, Guatemala  - President George W. Bush visited Guatemalan hill towns on Monday to promote U.S. efforts to fight poverty in Latin America, where Washington's power is increasingly being questioned by leftist leaders.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, asked Friday what he and President Bush would do to help the working poor, said "the best solution for poverty is a job" and contended their tax policies would help small businesses create more of them.
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Worried about the growing influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Bush administration is trying to make friends with more moderate leftist leaders in Latin America, where anti-U.S. sentiment runs high.
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The expected arrival here on Friday of President Bush, who personifies for Latin Americans the economic and political power of Washington, is being greeted with an
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President Bush opens a week-long tour of Latin America on Thursday aimed at strengthening ties with a region tilting to the left and influenced by the populist appeal of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva kicked off his campaign for re-election by promising to help Brazil&#039;s poor and uneducated working class.
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President Bush, seizing on Fidel Castro's fading health as a chance for rare change, will ask other nations Wednesday to help Cuba become a free society one day by committing money and political capital to the cause.
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President-elect Felipe Calderon on Friday named several close allies from his conservative National Action Party to lead his administration's anti-poverty efforts, which are considered crucial to winning the support of millions of poor Mexicans who voted for his opponent.
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When President Bush arrives in Colombia on Sunday he's likely to praise the economic model of President Alvaro Uribe, his staunchest ally in a region increasingly dominated by anti-American leaders.
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President Bush is offering moral support and financial aid to states hard hit by the latest hurricane to strike the United States.
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President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president on Saturday, courting another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to co-opt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand, Hugo Chavez.
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As U.S. President George W. Bush works his way through Latin America on a seven-day, five-nation tour, he is being met by all sorts of protests -- but perhaps none as striking as one set for Monday. A group of Mayan leaders has vowed to "spiritually cleanse" an ancient Mayan site after the president stops by.
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GUATEMALA CITY, March 12 -- President Bush began touring rural villages and ancient Mayan villages here Monday as he brought his "social justice" tour of Latin America closer to home and tried to showcase ways that the United States works to uplift its neighbors.
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President Bush aims to highlight the benefits of American drug-fighting aid in Colombia and boost a conservative Latin American leader with a brief, security-laden stop in the Andean nation.
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President Bush sought to reverse an impression of U.S. neglect as he opened a weeklong tour of Latin America on Thursday. Police clashed with protesters in Brazil and across the region.