Word: pesos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Ricardo and two others, Raul is arranging to buy a motorized boat to sail to Miami, where a brother recently landed on a raft. The youths have paid out half the 30,000-peso price, but have no idea how they'll get the rest. "I want to be free!" shouts Raul. "I want to go to a hotel for a vacation. I want to take a car and drive into the countryside. We are Negroes in our own country; we are slaves." His voice rises close to hysteria as waiters in the ; restaurant pretend not to hear...
...Batista dictatorship, is once again a clean, green ghetto for foreigners. Tourism is supposed to be the country's short-term salvation, but it also accentuates the difference between those with dollars and those without. Everyone wants to work at Varadero: hotel maids earn more in tips than peso-poor engineers; teachers and Angola veterans drive cabs; and psychologists make plane reservations. The expertise of the Cubans who work for Eamonn Donnelly, the Irish manager of two German-owned hotels, runs from agronomy to piloting MiG fighters...
...months Gina Cruz, a Manila grandmother, played Pepsi-Cola's Numbers Fever promotion lottery, buying several bottles a day and saving the caps, in the hope that one of the numbers printed inside would win her a 1 million peso ($40,000) prize. When the magic number, 349, was announced in May 1992, Cruz was overjoyed to find she had not one but two caps bearing the winning digits. She promptly fainted...
Pepsi tried to control the damage by offering a 500 peso ($20) "goodwill" prize to all holders of sham 349 caps, and the company paid out $10 million in the process. The appeasement effort may be rendered futile when the cases reach court, especially if the judge agrees with the Philippine Senate Trade Committee, which released a report this month that faults the company for "gross negligence" and "misleading or deceptive advertising...
...Castillito complex along the Malecon, for instance, boasts two restaurants, a video room with Sony TVs, a roller-skating rink, a disco with an Italian-designed light system and a pool with cavorting men and women. The entry fee to the government-operated club is only 1 peso (6 cents), a steal compared with the admission price at the Havana Club. Around Havana the youthful influence has spiced up revolutionary slogans, which are now splashed in neon colors on the walls. Sumate! (Get involved!) says...