Cameron Diaz, her 'Mao' bag and a row in the land of the Incas

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She took a bag emblazoned with a Chinese communist slogan on a trip to Peru, despite the country's recent history during which a Maoist-inspired insurgency led to 70,000 deaths.

Diaz, 34, was visiting the Inca city of Machu Picchu, a popular tourist site high in the Andes, wearing a green bag printed with a red star and the words "Serve the people" in Chinese script.

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Cameron managed to commit a political faux pas with her choice of handbag

The phrase was one of the favourite slogans of late Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung.

The Maoist Shining Path group's guerrilla rebellion of the Eighties and Nineties, and the counter-insurgency campaign, led to the deaths of thousands of Peruvians.

Local human rights activist Pablo Rojas said: "The phrase alludes to a concept which damaged Peru.

"She should not have used that bag where the followers of that ideology did so much damage."