Word: barata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that moved in a relentless parade up and down the streets. A fat peasant woman, her small son sketching in a layer of flour beside her, looked up from her knitting and, as I passed, called out in the guttural Spanish that many of the assimilated Aymara speak, "Harina barata, muy barata"--Flour, very cheap. I looked at her and smiled. Sensing a potential customer with mucho dinero, she put down her knitting and tried to entrap me: "Solamente tres pesos por kilo. No puede encontrar mejor"--Only three pesos, you can't find better. I mumbled in my broken...
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