Word: triunfo
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...imported from Bolivia and Peru, to the marketing of cocaine and marijuana in the U.S. According to Colombian police, Escobar's personal holdings include at least 15 airplanes, numerous ranches throughout Colombia and real estate holdings in the U.S. At his 10,000-acre spread near Puerto Triunfo, Escobar kept a private zoo of 1,500 animals, among them a five-ton elephant. He was elected to Colombia's Congress in 1982 as head of his own political party, and is still a Congressman. He is rumored to be in Australia...
...bullets rather than ballots were the problem. In China-meca, in the eastern department of San Miguel, voters were fired on by guerrillas in nearby coffee groves. People scattered, and the polls closed less than two hours after they had opened. Election officials assigned to the town of El Triunfo in central Usulutan department had even worse luck. When they arrived early on election day, they found guerrillas smashing the Lucite voting urns and making a campfire out of the paper ballots. Three miles north of the departmental capital of San Miguel, posters warning of land mines were planted...