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Cameron Diaz's bag offends entire nation of Peru

June 23, 2007

Machu Picchu, Peru - Actress Cameron Diaz, the star of "There's Something About Mary", offended Peruvians on a visit the Inca city of Machu Picchu by wearing a bag with an offensive slogan on it.

Actress Cameron Diaz, the star of There's Something About Mary, offended Peruvians on a visit the Inca city of Machu Picchu by wearing a bag with an offensive slogan on it.CLICK TO ENLARGE >

The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated "Shrek" films offended Peruvians who suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring here Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong's favorite political slogans.

Diaz wore a green messenger bag with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese on the flap, Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.

In Peru the Maoist Shining Path insurgency brought Peru to edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings, reports the AP.

Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency, the AP reports.

Pablo Rojas, a prominent Peruvian human rights activist, said the star of "There's Something About Mary" should have been a little more aware of local sensitivities when picking her accessories.

"It alludes to a concept that did so much damage to Peru, that brought about so many victims," said Pablo Rojas about the bag's slogan. "I don't think she should have used that bag where the followers of that ideology" did so much damage.

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