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After going to Venezuela from Barranquilla, Colombia, in 2003, Villanueva, 55, found steady work with decent pay at an aluminum factory, a job that came with a free house and other benefits. "There's a health clinic over there," he says, pointing down a dusty road lined with haphazardly constructed brick houses. "The Cuban modules are nearby too," he adds, referring to the free clinics, started by Chávez, that use Cuban doctors in poor neighborhoods. "They give me free pills for my hypertension...
...there something or someone you would never make fun of?- Felipe Cabrales, Barranquilla, Colombia...
...small town of Aracataca, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. For his first eight years, he saw little of his parents, whom he will reimagine years later as the thwarted couple in Love in the Time of Cholera. In those years, they lived 50 miles away, in Barranquilla, where they struggled to sustain a pharmacy. Young "Gabito" was raised by his loving grandparents, who are transformed by him much later into the dynastic founders of One Hundred Years of Solitude, just as he makes Aracataca into that book's haunting town of Macondo...
...Airport, now the nation's second largest international passenger and cargo hub, is poised to overtake New York City's Kennedy International Airport by 1995-96. It is already the world's fifth busiest cargo airport. Ships sail from Biscayne Bay to virtually every port in the world, from Barranquilla to Bombay...
Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez, a former chief of the M-19 terrorist group, abandoned the revolution two months ago to run for President in the May 27 elections. Last Thursday his campaign was cut short. While flying from Bogota to Barranquilla, Pizarro was gunned down by an assailant wielding a 9-mm Ingram automatic pistol...