Imagine if Brazil denied an entry visa to a US senator who is under investigation, but without conviction… Or if it suggested that it would do the same to the President of the US Senate himself?
The “big brother to the North” is reportedly up in arms, recalling its ambassador and staging the most vigorous protests. The visa queue for Brazilians has supposedly stopped, by just one more minute…
Now read the news given in The Globe by Jorge Bastos Moreno The fact that the US denied a visa to Senator Romero Jucá, until recently a powerful Minister of Planning and now a member of the government's inner circle, is a slap in the face to the usurping government, both of the president himself and his foreign minister, José Serra.
Personally, I think Jucá only had an entry visa for prison facilities, but that's not a matter of opinion: he hasn't been convicted of anything, and a foreign government can't block the entry of a senator from a "friendly country" (and, now, with Serra, a "buddy").
Let's see now how the group that "speaks harshly to indigenous people and speaks softly to..." acts. cowboy"age."
The days have returned when we took off our shoes to enter the Big House.