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(Mexico's UN) Envoy criticizes flu 'discrimination' of Mexicans
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/8/09 | Frank Jordans - ap

Posted on 05/08/2009 12:27:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

GENEVA – Nations need common rules for responding to flu outbreaks to prevent discrimination and unfair trade restrictions, Mexico's U.N. envoy said Friday, complaining that Mexican citizens and exports were being unfairly singled out.

Some countries have "developed some attitudes which I will straightforward qualify as discriminatory against Mexicans," Luis Alfonso De Alba said.

The World Health Organization is looking into the measures countries take in combatting the outbreak and the justifications they give, but WHO has no plans to make the findings public, said spokesman Gregory Hartl.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Mexico
KEYWORDS: criticizes; discrimination; envoy; flu; influenza; mexicans; swineflu

1 posted on 05/08/2009 12:27:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

The end game of political correctness-death!


2 posted on 05/08/2009 12:29:35 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: NormsRevenge

The pigs should be more upset then the Mexicans some of them were killed not the Mexicans.


3 posted on 05/08/2009 12:31:01 PM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
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To: NormsRevenge

It’s a quite reasonable “discrimination” when your country is the source of the disease.


4 posted on 05/08/2009 12:35:04 PM PDT by jimt
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To: NormsRevenge

Is it me, or are they beginning to sound like muslims (C.A.I.R.)?


5 posted on 05/08/2009 12:38:45 PM PDT by VR-21 (The election of Barack Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Bunch o’Mexican cry-babies.

“B-b-but...It’s just not ffaaaaiirrr!”

Grow up. Geez.

(What’s next? A U.N. Flu Rights Commission? Affirmative action for nations on the brink of collapse? “No Crappy Country Left Behind”?)


6 posted on 05/08/2009 12:41:23 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: NormsRevenge

These people dont even know the meaning of the word “discrimination. Not surprizing since they went to “college”.


7 posted on 05/08/2009 12:48:29 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Hey Alfonso. Bite me. Mexicans are some of the biggest racists and bigots out there.


8 posted on 05/08/2009 1:38:43 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Sprechen sie Austrian? Happy Cinco de Quatro!)
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