Further to that previously reported meeting with Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Bono has donated a guitar to help raise funds for the leader's Zero Hunger campaign, which aims to see all Brazilians getting three meals a day by the end of his term of office on 31 Dec. The president also hopes to expand his country's use of bio-diesel fuel made from seeds and beans.
When the singer played in Sao Paolo on Monday, he told fans: "To beat poverty, we all have to work together. Martin Luther King didn't just have an American dream, but an Irish dream, a Latin American dream - sing for Peru, for Chile, for Argentina, for Brazil." There were, however, some boos when he mentioned Argentina. Oops.