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Someone at the US Department of State must have a pretty good sense of humor: on April, 2004, I received an invitation to enroll along with a group of Brazilian journalists on the International Visitors Program and take a closer look at the US media preparations for the presidential elections in November. The trip was scheduled to the ides of August and a busy agenda was prepared for us by Delphi World Learning office in Washington. We'd visit newspapers, radio and TV stations, public offices and meet with politicians and scholars, giving us a deeper understanding of the American electoral process. A few days before the National Republican Party Convention began in New York, with the Charley hurricane blowing up in Florida, we embarked to know the United States post September eleven. Even before we boarded we were warned not to lock our suitcases. If they were locked they would be considered suspicious and could have their lockers forced and broken by the authorities! If you want to go along on this trip, click on Kerry to go ahead or click on Bush to go back to the main page.
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