‘War Criminal’ Bush Blamed for Global Crisis
Agence France-Presse: PROTESTERS have demanded that US President George W Bush get out of Peru where he is attending an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, blaming him for the world economic crisis.
“Bush out,” about 1000 demonstrators chanted in the centre of the capital Lima, watched by scores of police in riot gear who made sure they did not move towards the APEC summit venue several kilometres away. “This crisis didn’t come from the Peruvian people. We shouldn’t have to pay for it,” a union leader told the crowd, which demonstrated peacefully.
Mr Bush, one of 21 leaders of Asia-Pacific economies converging on Lima for the weekend summit, arrived shortly after the protest. He was escorted under tight US Secret Service and Peruvian police security from Lima airport to the army headquarters building housing the APEC meetings.
The anti-Bush protest, organised by Peru’s biggest labour union, charged that Mr Bush’s decision to wage a costly war in Iraq contributed to the financial and economic crises.
