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COPA SALSA

REUTERS, Lima
Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira believes arch-rivals Argentina are favourites to win the Copa America next month.
Argentina are taking a squad of almost full strength to the tournament in Peru while Brazil are resting top players such as Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka and Roberto Carlos.
"Argentina are certainly favourites," Parreira told reporters on Wednesday.
"They're taking their first team and that makes a difference because they have a team readymade for the competition.
"Each side has their own motiva-tion for the tournament. Argentina didn't take part last time and maybe they're under pressure to take a fullstrength side."
However, he added that world champions Brazil should not be underestimated in Peru.
"Our team's good and we don't have to fear any opponent," he said.
Parreira has criticised the timing of the tournament which falls in the European close season, when most Brazilian internationals are on holiday. It is also the middle of the South American World Cup qualifying competition.
Argentina pulled out of the last Copa in Colombia three years ago after the tournament went ahead at five days' notice having initially been postponed.
Brazil, who will be based in the Andean city of Arequipa, face Chile, Costa Rica and Paraguay in their first round group.
WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME!
Violent anti-government protests and a planned general strike are scaring tourists away from Peru and only a third of expected visitors will come during this month's Copa America, tourism officials said on Friday.
Peru's Chamber of Tourism said it expected 10,000 tourists for the July 6-25 12-nation event, down from an initial private sector esti-
mate of 30,000.
"The violent protests broadcast throughout the continent on television ... have damaged the country's image, they don't help," said the chamber's president Carlos Canales.
"If we sell 10,000 tour packages (for tourists) we will be satisfied," Canales later told RPP radio.
Thousands of protesters overran the southern city of Ayacucho on Thursday and set fire to government buildings and hotels after police used tear gas to break up a protest by teachers.
The government blamed followers of the Shining Path rebel group whom it said infiltrated the protests.
Farmers are planning a four-day nationwide strike from July 11 and Peru's biggest workers confederation, the CGTP, has called its first general strike since 1999 on July 14 to protest the policies of President Alejandro Toledo.
But Prime Minister Carlos Ferrero said that between 30,000 to 35,000 tourists could still visit if there were no more protests and the general strike went peacefully.
Peru's tourism industry has been growing at a double-digit rate in recent months, according to the government, which hopes visitor numbers will surpass the one-million mark this year.