Word: lomberto
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...tried to clean up the district; he rounded up the hundreds of Frenchwomen who then monopolized the Barrio Coloón and shipped them back to Europe. The only practical result was that a horde of grateful native operators moved in. Last week another Minister of the Interior, husky Lomberto Díaz, 40, was getting better results...
Setting out to sweep all this away, Minister Díaz, a onetime journalist, earned himself a mocking nickname from the press: Lomberto el Terrible. Thundered Lomberto, undeterred: "If the criminal elements and the women victims they live off don't get out, I'll cut off their light and water, pack their furniture off to a city warehouse and jail any stragglers. We'll show them no mercy." His eviction tactics worked. By week's end, all but a corporal's guard of the women and their flashily dressed chulos (pimps) had pulled...
...Lomberto's victory had a predictable sequel. Most of the girls merely packed up and moved to different parts of town. Residents of other barrios became uneasily aware of various roving-eyed women strolling about, clutching bundles, violin cases, or even babies as camouflage...
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