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Dozens of voice-over actors and their supporters marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest the replacement of the actors who provide the Spanish-language voices for The Simpsons and other TV shows. “Reject the impostor voices!” chanted about 90 protesters as they walked through the business district, slowing traffic to a crawl along busy Insurgentes Avenue. They carried pictures of Bart and Homer Simpson, along with those of other cartoon characters. Simpsons fans here have been in an uproar ever since the Mexico City firm that does the voice-overs for Latin America, Grabaciones y Doblajes Internacionales, canceled its contract with Mexico’s actors union last year after the company changed hands. The move led to the mass resignation of 10 actors who supplied the voices for The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, King of the Hill and other shows. Their voices are known all over Latin America, thanks to the popularity of The Simpsons.

SOURCE: AzCentral