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...criticism, however, seems to indicate an underlying lack of confidence and trust in the government. There are many who remember the first Sandinista government's inventive monetary policies and the resulting mega-inflation of the 1980s. As a result, some people are now treating the new plastic dinero as if it were a hot potato. "Many people don't want these bills because they think they are valueless and they're going to get stuck with them, so they're spending them as fast as they can," says clothing vendor Fabiola Espinoza. It has unintentionally created a bizarre stimulus effect...
...More political but equally grabby is Don Dinero, the Aterciopelados's stinging critique of society's obsession with money. Buitrago's groovy bass is mixed with blaring Mexican trumpets, a touch of reverberating accordion and some twangy sounds imported from India - all while Echeverri innocently croons: "Don Dinero how I love you/Don Dinero you are the main guy." In the same vein is Oye Mujer, a pop song that takes on the idea of the over-sexualized woman. "Sex object, piece of meat with a Barbie complex," growls Echeverri in the chorus. It sounds earnest, but it isn't. Both...
RALPH NADER No 5%, no dinero--and he may spoil it for Gore. But hey, great to see Phil Donahue back...
...consortium of governments today announced the arrests of 88 alleged drug distributors -- 60 in the U.S. -- and the seizure of $52 million and nine tons of cocaine as a result of an international, two-year long probe of worldwide money laundering. The probe -- called "Operation Dinero" and conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and officials from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies...
...show, written by juniors Mo Rocca and Oren Izenberg, tells the story of Belle Bottoms (Peter Ferren), whose "pad is going condo" so she has to come up with the "dinero" or she'll lose her "spread." Belle brings her '70s gang of friends back to 1875 in order to find her great-great-great-etc. grandmother Lady Ophelia Bottoms and retrieve the long-lost family fortune...