On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 20:03:38 GMT, "Ramboi" <@nospam.com> wrote:
>> At any rate, by applying this to U.S. citizens, Brazil is
>> effectively targeting more than 80% of the tourists from countries that
>> require a visa from Brazilian citizens
>
>I am not sure about your 80% rate. If you could kindly show me Brazilian's
>statistic of tourists, I would believe it. I think this number maybe
>exaggerated. I visited Brazil quote often and I notice at the Brazilian
>international airport foreigners from all over the world. European and USA
>are perhaps the biggest customers. My got feeling is, the tourists from US
>maybe like 40 - 45%.
>
>Ramboi
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>"Bruno Carneiro da Cunha" wrote in
>message news:btbhcv$11o$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi...
>> David wrote:
>>
>> > I might be able to understand this new regulation if the USA only
>> > targeted Brazil, but it did not. This new regulation is for ALL
>> > countries that the USA requires a Tourist Visa to enter the US. If
>> > Brazil wants to do something like it, they should have done the same
>> > and require all countries that require a visa to enter Brazil to go
>> > through this new procedure not just single out the USA. They are being
>> > STUPID and reactionary. The next time Brazil wants the USA to back a
>> > loan from the WTO we should tell them to go to hell and see if Lula's
>> > new friend Fidel Castro can co-sign for them...
>>
>> 1) This regulation was imposed by a Judge. Lula has absolutely nothing to
>do
>> with it.
>>
>> 2) They may be stupid and reactionary, but they are also being reciprocal.
>> When Canada and Russia begins singling out Brazilians as potential
>> terrorists, Brazil will begin singling out Canadians and Russians, not
>> before. At any rate, by applying this to U.S. citizens, Brazil is
>> effectively targeting more than 80% of the tourists from countries that
>> require a visa from Brazilian citizens.
>>
>> 3) Brazil never asked for a loan from the WTO. It asked one from the IMF,
>> World Bank and a number of other financial institutions. As far as I know
>> the World Trade Organization does not loan money.
>>
>> 4) Castro is a very, very OLD friend of Lula... The new friends are
>Gaddhafi
>> and al Ashad. :-)
Hey, Bruno, tell us more about your "got" feeling, K?
>>
>> B.
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