{"id":293,"date":"2004-01-07T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2004\/01\/07\/like-clockwork\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T09:26:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T14:26:26","slug":"like-clockwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2004\/01\/07\/like-clockwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Clockwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted via <a href=\"atrios.blogspot.com\"> Atrios<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The U.S. State Department has changed its stance on a new Brazilian security process for U.S. citizens entering the South American nation. Washington is now urging Brazil to alter its new process of fingerprinting and photographing U.S. visitors.  &#8220;We have told the Brazilians that we think that these are measures that provide tremendous inconvenience to travelers and that they need to be changed,&#8221; State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, Boucher&#8217;s deputy &#8212; J. Adam Ereli &#8212; said the United States understood Brazil&#8217;s new policy. &#8220;This is their sovereign right to do if they want to do it.&#8221; Ereli said.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s program began after a similar process was announced for the United States. The US-VISIT program began January 5 and applies to any visitor, including Brazilians, who are required to have visa to enter the United States. Visitors from most European nations are excluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Original story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/01\/07\/terrorism.threat\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted via Atrios: The U.S. State Department has changed its stance on a new Brazilian security process for U.S. citizens entering the South American nation. Washington is now urging Brazil to alter its new process of fingerprinting and photographing U.S. visitors. &#8220;We have told the Brazilians that we think that these are measures that provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}