Friday, March 30, 2007

"Spain No Longer Loves The Philippines"

"My green Philippine passport has taken me to many places but, like most Filipinos, I have not been spared instances of humiliation just to get a visa stamped on its page.

My encounter with an official in the Embassy of Spain in South Korea was the most harrowing. Spain, our former mother country, the country that gave us the name Philippines after its king who died of syphilis, apparently lost no love for us." ...full story here



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