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...transformed into a "center for interpretation" to inform visitors about the repression and suffering inflicted by Franco's regime. "It's not normal for a democratic society to have failed to resolve this issue," says icv vice president Jaume Bosch. "Auschwitz has been converted into a learning center; Argentina has turned its torture chambers into places for explanation. Too many years have passed for us simply to leave the Valley as the Franco regime left it." Since the icv floated the idea, more than 30 human-rights groups have expressed support...
...easy to host all these countries. It's particularly not easy to host, perhaps, me." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in a press conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, site of a 34-nation Summit of the Americas, where anti-Iraq-war protesters, calling Bush a "fascist" and a "terrorist," threw Molotov cocktails and set a building on fire...
...Bush and Chavez never spoke to one another. Chavez owned the streets, delivering an anti-American harangue to a rally of 25,000, but he never owned the Summit itself. Even the nations that oppose the FTAA in its present form-the Mercosur trading bloc which includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay-made it clear that they weren't opposed to some kind of agreement...
...days of military juntas seem gone forever and even though some of the nations here have a more leftist cast - like Argentina and Brazil, both of which are opposing the Bush plan for a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas - most, including Argentina and Brazil, have continued to make market reforms and create institutions that won the praise of the Bush White House. Friday, the president praised Argentine President Nestor Kirchner for his commitment to the rule of law and creating a climate favorable for investment. Bush planned to echo similar sentiments on his arrival in to Brazil later...
...part, President Vincente Fox of Mexico gave a nose count suggesting 29 of 34 nations assembled here still favor an FTAA even if major nations like Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina do not. The heads of state will issue a final communique soon, as they meet across town at the Hermitage Hotel, safely away from the protesters. As with all these kinds of events, U.S. officials will pour out of the meeting declaring whatever statement emerges as a major victory. Stay tuned...