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dipsydoodle

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5. My only knowedge of their resources

Reply to toby jo (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 10:23 AM

Jan 2013

are substantial amounts of gold and the fact that all farmland had been appropriated by the government and mainly turned over to sugar production for export as ethanol to the west.

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