Several thousand demonstrators on Wednesday marched through Brazil's capital Brasilia in a protest against U.S. President George W. Bush and his planned visit to the Latin American country on Nov. 6.

Indians clad in weed skirts from the northeastern state of Bahia were dancing and chanting anti-Bush slogans to the rhythm of homemade rattles.

Organizers and police estimated around 6,000 demonstrators participated in the march toward the U.S. Embassy, which was heavily guarded by police.

Bush is scheduled to meet President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia on Nov. 6 after attending the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, between Nov. 3 and 5. From Brasilia he is to travel to Panama.

Dozens of grassroots groups, including the landless and garbage collectors movement, carried banners and placards reading "Bush out of Latin America."

"One of our big problems is that the economies in our region are subjected to the interests of the United States and the international capital markets," said Nilton Viaria, a metalworker and one of the event's organizers.

"Bush is responsible for much of the inequality in the world," huge loudspeakers blared from two trucks mounted with platforms and pinned with banners.

Nearly all of the demonstrators had come to Brasilia to participate in a forum on alternative economic development. Many protested as much against their own government as they did against Bush, demanding land and water rights as well as education and low-cost credits.