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2003-09-08 Latin America

Anti-Globalization Protests Loom at Cancun

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Posted by Steve 2003-09-08 3:02:27 PM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "U.S. environmentalists, militant Mexican peasants and European backpackers"...

What, no lesbian poets from Nicaragua?

Posted by Raj 2003-9-8 3:11:55 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-9-8 3:11:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 (M)any foreign campaigners were staying away from Cancun due to the cost of traveling and the reputation of the Mexican police as being tough on dissent

And some of them are staying away because they're still on probation...

Posted by seafarious 2003-9-8 3:23:13 PM|| 2003-9-8 3:23:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Brazilian rap music? No wonder they are angry.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-9-8 3:38:08 PM|| 2003-9-8 3:38:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Activists say the chance of violence at mass protests planned for later this week was slim because many foreign campaigners were staying away from Cancun due to the cost of traveling and the reputation of the Mexican police as being tough on dissent.

So what they're saying is "we're basically pussies"? What a surprise.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-8 4:00:31 PM|| 2003-9-8 4:00:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 tu3031, what they are saying is that unlike the Storm troopers in the U.S., the Federalis won't think twice about cracking some heads of young punks. Since they know that IF they try to damage the property in Cancun, the police will probably round up the whole lot and play a rousing game of piÃ±ata before they throw them out of the country. Oh please, oh please let them have a protest! I hope the camera is rolling!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-9-8 4:07:31 PM|| 2003-9-8 4:07:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Can someone explain to me why these folks are violently opposed to economic globalazation and incredibly affirmative to every other kind of globization? Oh. Never mind. Inexplicable.

Posted by Highlander 2003-9-8 4:37:34 PM|| 2003-9-8 4:37:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ........as the anti-globalists travel on capitalist multinational airlines, heh heh.

Seafarious---I like your catch. Here is my favorite part about the French anti-globalization chap:

But his latest sentence was reduced in a partial amnesty by French President Jacques Chirac, and a judge ruled he could serve the rest of his sentence under a conditional release programme.

This is the guy that trashed the McDonalds Restaurant a few years ago.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-9-8 5:15:28 PM|| 2003-9-8 5:15:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I would have to kill my travel agent if I were at Cacun for my honeymoon and all the protesters were getting hit with hose cannons.... wait that could be entertaining. Would that type of show cost extra?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-8 8:26:31 PM|| 2003-9-8 8:26:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Cancun brings in a shitload of tourista dollars to perennially poor Yucatan, so the locals will kick some anti-globo ass even if the Federales don't...

Posted by mojo 2003-9-9 12:12:41 AM|| 2003-9-9 12:12:41 AM|| Front Page Top

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