Word: chorillo
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When Stealth fighters and B-52s levelled the slum area of El Chorillo in Panama--creating 30,000 instant homeless and uncounted dead--when F-15Es and Tomahawks tore up the suburbs of Baghdad, they got away with it. We believed that if the military could have, they would have avoided these folks, and that if those folks lived so close to support networks, they obviously supported them...
...sporadic sniping had been the ostensible reason for bombing El Chorillo. The "dignity battalions," like those tricky now-you-see-them-now-you-don't PDF members, "continued to pose a threat," although to whom or what except the occupiers is unclear...
Reaching Panama, she settles in the Chorillo district, rents a hovel alongside some hundred others. She changes her name to Cherie, becomes all that the name implies. So many men of so many nationalities pass through her arms that she only thinks of them, like hurdling sheep, to keep insomnia away. The money in the hollow bed-leg rises coin by coin...
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