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ANCHORENA PARK, Uruguay (AP) -- President George W. Bush launched talks Saturday with Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez focused on expanding trade with this tiny coastal nation.
It was the second stop on a five-country Latin American trip shadowed by taunts from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez that Bush ignored. The leftist firebrand is answering the president's trek with jeers of "Gringo go home."
On a cloudy, windy day, Bush boarded his helicopter along the coastline of the broad Plate River for the nearly one-hour trip to Estancia Anchorena, a facility in a national park that serves as this nation's equivalent to the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland.
Bush is trying to spread a message of U.S. compassion for the region and sideline Chavez, who blames U.S.-style capitalism for poverty and inequality in Latin America. (Watch Bush explain how Americans have been generous "in our neighborhood" )
Asked at a news conference Friday in Brazil whether his trip counters Chavez's influence in the region or stokes the populist leader's support, Bush refrained from even naming his nemesis.
"I bring the goodwill of the United States to South America and Central America. That's why I'm here," said Bush, who also is visiting Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.
"I don't think America gets enough credit for trying to help improve people's lives. And so my trip is to explain, as clearly as I can, that our nation is generous and compassionate," he said.
The president and his advisers regularly deflect and downplay Chavez's verbal attacks on Bush, whom Chavez has dubbed the "little gentleman from the North."
Calling Chavez the "Bolivarian gentleman," Thomas Shannon, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric Affairs, said he's made it clear that he doesn't see the value of any engagement with the United States. Returning from a trip last month to Brazil and Argentina, undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns said, "We don't obsess about Hugo Chavez."
White House press secretary Tony Snow said that while it's tough to ignore Chavez's verbal attacks, the president is going to concentrate on his meetings with heads of state.
It was the second stop on a five-country Latin American trip shadowed by taunts from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez that Bush ignored. The leftist firebrand is answering the president's trek with jeers of "Gringo go home."
On a cloudy, windy day, Bush boarded his helicopter along the coastline of the broad Plate River for the nearly one-hour trip to Estancia Anchorena, a facility in a national park that serves as this nation's equivalent to the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland.
Bush is trying to spread a message of U.S. compassion for the region and sideline Chavez, who blames U.S.-style capitalism for poverty and inequality in Latin America. (Watch Bush explain how Americans have been generous "in our neighborhood" )
Asked at a news conference Friday in Brazil whether his trip counters Chavez's influence in the region or stokes the populist leader's support, Bush refrained from even naming his nemesis.
"I bring the goodwill of the United States to South America and Central America. That's why I'm here," said Bush, who also is visiting Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.
"I don't think America gets enough credit for trying to help improve people's lives. And so my trip is to explain, as clearly as I can, that our nation is generous and compassionate," he said.
The president and his advisers regularly deflect and downplay Chavez's verbal attacks on Bush, whom Chavez has dubbed the "little gentleman from the North."
Calling Chavez the "Bolivarian gentleman," Thomas Shannon, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric Affairs, said he's made it clear that he doesn't see the value of any engagement with the United States. Returning from a trip last month to Brazil and Argentina, undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns said, "We don't obsess about Hugo Chavez."
White House press secretary Tony Snow said that while it's tough to ignore Chavez's verbal attacks, the president is going to concentrate on his meetings with heads of state.