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To: marcos who wrote (15873)	3/1/2002 6:04:06 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Got a car in Quebec City without credit card. They just asked for full pay in advance. I can go to several banks here in Banana Land and take in local currency with EUROCARD over Cirrus system. Before it was possible only in Euroland. But now almost every where. Here very bank transaction is taxed. It is the tax that no one -who has money- can cheat. With Eurocard I take currency from my Euro (€)account. Never deposit in the bank -only for energy and telephone fixed line bills. All other I pay cash. So I don't pay taxes on my financial transactions.

To: marcos who wrote (15873)	3/1/2002 10:32:57 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

If the venerable post-Aztec rulers of a certain Spanish-speaking country bordering on the US have their way, the newest coin of the realm will be another neo-Aztec commodity: The white Colombian powder they allow into the US in exchange for millions (perhaps billions by now) in bribes. This is a dirty little secret no one wants to talk about. The sums are extraordinary, the corruption is total, spreading itself in all vertical and horizontal directions. The damage done is enormous. Many in the USA make fun of Montezuma's Revenge, thinking it to be a gastric disorder. Montezuma's Revenge is a lot more pernicious than a stomach cramp. And if anyone thinks that the post-Aztec Aztecas don't think of it in terms of revenge, they are listening with ears closed. The moral justification for the trade has been articulated to be revenge for the taking of Mexican territory resulting from the Mex.-Am. War. Naturally, the US doesn't want to upset the applecart since fingering the high ups in Mexican politics as the corrupt drug lords which in essence they are would harm other interests. Instead, we go about it all wrong, going after the small fish instead of the big shark. The Spaniards took Aztec gold. We're still paying for it.