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:::el dia 1/16/04 a las 7:30 AM -0800 Steve Cisler escribio::::: > > >Probably all these barriers are going to be even more rigid, and the >reciprocity will increase. Seems to me as a Colombian that this topic cannot be treated with reciprocity, I do cope with the Brazilian reaction more because I tend to celebrate opposition from "goverment leaders" that have voice and make the stand, even Chavez in that sense is ok, now Lulla or the Argentian president were able to say NO to some crucial presion from Bush last week at the ALCA meeting. I wish Uribe had the balls to treat the US goverment as he treats the Colombian rebel armies, but in that case he is a charming kitten. Few years ago in the Colombian congress [a very respectfull place] this reciprocity subject was raised by a ultra-pissed congressman that wanted to apply the exact same rules to the "other" that treated (him) colombians as criminals whenever they travel outside "homeland", my guess is that his pain and anger were inspired from all the trauma he had to suffer "dealing" with visas and being triple-checked and mistreated on all the borders he crossed while abroad. Colombians i.e have almost all doors closed, there are only 7 "open" territories left of the planet where they can go withouth the need of the visa stamp. Even the nordic countries that before the EU had a Scandinavian Visa for all the three [Norway, Sweden and Finland] issued, no matter you had the Scandinavian Visa already in your passport, a special permit for you to cross from Finland to Sweden, but only if you happened to be "colombian". Now with the EU thing my bet is that its all bit more complicated. [this is not as a jumping fences game is something more clever] Reciprocity for my country will mean drast-auto-ostracism, at the end of the story the colombian congress didnt change the laws. So you people can still come without the hassles. Im sure this sort of openness will be read as pure economical need, and of course just the idea will bring in fear to the brave others, thought i wanted to state that even though they close their borders and mark us as "bad" or potential criminal, potential ilegal=sans papiers, we here still keep our borders open plus a very big warm and welcome smile. [yea we need your money and of course your friendship] One other little thing. At the end of the translated text i read: "Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher and professor at the University of Venice and New York University" But at the begining of the Le Monde text he stated he wont teach there and invited his collegues on a boycott, perhaps they should all go to EGS in Switzerland http://www.egs.edu were Agamben and many other philosophers have been seen. humm, better would be they all come and share their views here in Colombia or perhaps Palestine? ok yea, Brazil sounds better i know...carnival begins Feb. ) alejo # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net