Word: libertadores
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...gold-and-white portals of the opulent high-rise at 2095 Libertador Avenue in Buenos Aires, men with pistols bulging under their open vests flank the doorway. Before anyone is allowed into the building, the guards check via walkie-talkie with the building's most prominent resident: Argentina's new Ambassador-at-Large, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. She is the country's richest woman, with an estimated net worth of more than $1 billion. "I hate bodyguards," she apologizes, as she escorts a visitor into the elegance of her Louis XVI salon in a duplex apartment on the uppermost floors...
...instability of this arrangement was obvious, and made all the more so by Castillo Armas' triumphal reception in the capital. Sick of Red terrorism and full of respect for a fighting, anti-Communist crusader, the people quite plainly preferred Castillo Armas to Palace Revolutionary Monzón. "Libertador!" they hailed the little colonel...
...honor Simon Bolivar, Bogota's Teatro Colon scheduled a new French play about El Libertador's fight for freedom, entitled Montserrat. The Ministry of Education gave its blessing; President Laure-ano Gomez himself went to the opening-night performance...
Later, he bought the Jonker diamond, recognized as the world's fourth biggest uncut stone † ; and the President Vargas, third biggest, and Venezuela's smaller Libertador. He paid $2,100,000 for the three, cut them into 45 smaller stones and sold the lot for nearly...
...body in the street," shouts of "Death to the tyrant!" She persuaded the Liberator to jump out the window. When the assassins broke in, she met them with a drawn sword, sent them in the wrong direction. Said Bolivar: "Today you have become the Libertadora of the Libertador...