A Round up of Corporate News Accounts of the EU/ Latin America Summit and demonstrations.

Rochester NY - Sunday, May 30, 2004 The events surrounding the European Union and Latin American summit were outlined in an Associated Press news story and run in the local Gannett owned Democrat & Chronicle. The article mainly focused on the international tit-for-tat between participants from both, the EU and certain Latin American countries; with only a blurb-like paragraph on the anti-globalization protestors at the gates

The summit in Guadalajara, Mexico resulted in a 104 point declaration Expressing "abhorrence at recent evidence of the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraqi Prisons," and calls for "support for the International Criminal Court and Kyoto Protocol." Statements like these, the AP article reported, were criticized by Cuba for being non specific and "ambiguous." While officials from the EU, Criticized Cuba; remarking that it was not "in the best interest of Cuba to confront the European Union."

The final line of the story read, "Dozens where arrested." Meanwhile the Bakersfield Californian reported that, "No injuries were reported." According to Reuters UK, "They beat up and arrested at least six demonstrators in the fighting a few hundred yards [meters] from where summit leaders met."

While alternative media outlets such as Indybay.org and Axisoflogic.com, though light on the political drama on the inside of the gates, the submission based publications story focused mainly the arrest and mistreatment of said protestors; reporting "Firsthand reports from family members and detainees indicate widespread abuse in five separate prison facilities."