Hi Bruno
>
> > 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.
I never said Lula passed this new Law. I can read and I know it was
some Anti-American Federal Judge. If Lula wanted to, he could have
squashed this new Federal regulation...
> 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.
The USA did not single out Brazilians as terrorists. They require ALL
visitors needing tourist visas to go through the new procedure, not
only Brazilians.
> 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.
You are correct. It was the IMF but the USA had to agree to back the
loan otherwise it would have never been given. Now lets see if they
can pay it back.
> 4) Castro is a very, very OLD friend of Lula... The new friends are Gaddhafi
> and al Ashad. :-)
Yes, all the Latin world communists stick together... Lula does not
see that Brazil needs the USA a lot more than they need Cuba. |