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Until last week, Jilma Bejarano, an illiterate mestizo, servant girl in Caracas, had never seen as much as 100 bolivars ($30) at one time. Now she has 209,503 bolivars (more than $62,000), plans to buy three houses, bring her six illegitimate children from the country to the city. Jilma is a winner of the five-and-six, Caracas' long-shot version of the U.S. daily double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Long Shot | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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