Word: colombia
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...Bolivia, where city officials supposedly have the say on who does business where, the women openly buy and sell prime stalls like seats on the stock exchange. A good location brings as much as $600, and woe betide the male who tries to interfere. In Colombia, the mayor of Bogota once sent city officials to enforce a ruling ordering market women to don white aprons and keep their food off the ground. Market women launched a counterbarrage of rotten tomatoes, and that ended that. In Paraguay, fire hoses were used against the women but were no match for flying vegetables...
...believes that "the strength of our country is in the family and the home, and that's where the emphasis should be." He has equally strong convictions about Chicago's future as an international trade center; Continental has opened a London office, is expanding into Argentina, Colombia and Japan...
...Colombia was not required to surrender Peru's leftish leader, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, who had taken asylum in the Colombian embassy in Lima...
...building stable democracy in Latin America. Yet in the past three years, most U.S. attempts to prop up weak governments have fallen flat. And there are well-founded fears that the worst is not over. All week long, the State Department chewed its nails over military muttering in Colombia, troubled by a weak President and backlands violence; in Venezuela, rocked by increasing Castroite terrorism, and in Brazil, where perpetual chaos brought the country to the point of martial...
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