Cancun - Bankers, industrialists and government ministers yesterday discussed ways of curbing rampant poverty in Latin America, as militants bared their buttocks to protest against globalisation.
Delegates at the World Economic Forum discussed some of the ills that affect the continent, as well as the economic policies of Mexico. Hundreds of people at an alternative forum, also held in the seaside resort of Cancun, discussed similar topics, but with a radically different tack. To chants of "death to capitalism," several of the protesters bared their buttocks, under the bemused stare of tourists clad for the beach.
Opening the two-day WEF meeting, the Mexican Central Bank governor, Mr Guillermo Ortiz, said: "One has to recognise that this globalisation process has left many marginalised people on the wayside,"