Chinese 'Bill Gates' booed by angry Peruvian textile workers

AFP, 20 Nov 2008

LIMA (AFP) — Jack Ma, a Chinese web entrepreneur sometimes called his country's "Bill Gates", was Wednesday jeered by angry Peruvian textile workers who saw him as the negative personification of a China-Peru free trade agreement.

Around 200 traders in the Lima district of Gamarra gathered to protest a visit by Ma, who had been invited to speak to them by Peruvian Production Minister Elena Conterno, on the sidelines of an APEC meeting here.

"Get out of here!" the vendors yelled as more than 20 riot police formed a line between them and Ma.

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