BRASILIA, Brazil Trade talk and Brazilian barbecue will be on the table when the presidents of the United States and Brazil meet here Sunday, but landless peasants have called for demonstrations against President Bush.

The U.S. leader arrives Saturday after discussing economic growth and poverty at the 34-nation Summit of the Americas in the Argentine resort of Mar del Plata.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will honor his guest Sunday with a barbecue at the presidential residence a gesture of confidence in Brazilian beef, which has been boycotted by 47 countries after an October outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in remote southwestern farms.

Bush"s visit is expected to cement relations with Silva, who at first was distrusted by Washington because of his leftist origins.

But Silva a former shoeshine boy, grade-school dropout, lathe operator and union boss abandoned his leftist rhetoric and has stabilized the economy of Latin America"s biggest country.

To the surprise of many, Silva Brazil"s first leftist president curbed spending and brought inflation down to less than 6 percent a year. But he also enacted programs to distribute food and boost education among the poor his strongest base of support if he runs for re-election in 2006.

Bush praised Silva this week in interviews with Brazilian journalists and said that "when Brazil speaks, people listen carefully."

But many Brazilians plan to make Bush"s visit less than peaceful.

Graffiti proclaiming "Get out, killer Bush" and "Yankees go home" was spray painted on two monuments in Brasilia. On Friday, hundreds of protesters burned an American flag and an effigy of Bush in front of the U.S. embassy.

Officials from the Catholic Church endorsed the protests.

"Bush represents war, the arms industry, and that opposes the main features of the Brazilian people, for we are for peace," said bishop Demetrio Valentini.

The Landless Movement Workers" Movement one of Brazil"s most militant social organizations, called for protests in at least six major cities.

"He is unwelcome among the Brazilian people," said Joao Paulo Rodrigues, the movement"s coordinator in Brasilia. "Wherever he goes in Brazil we will be shouting "Bush out.""