If you are reading this now is because you probably received my press release a couple hours ago. My name is Carlos di Gaspero, I’m the President of AFLEX, MRE’s Local hired Work Association. I was once an employee of MRE, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As I sit here waiting for my plane going to DC to participate in AFLEX first public demonstration in favor of employees hired abroad by the Brazilian Government, so many things are going through my mind, but I’m going to give you a brief history of what happened last year. It all started because we, locally hired employees, asked for salary reparation beginning 2011, and immediately got a telegram from Brasíllia saying we could not have salary compensation again, because the government was cutting down expenses. At the same time we learned that the public servants abroad, our coworkers per say, had not only had their salaries adjusted in 2011, but also had their residence assistance plan increased. We wer...