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Latin America

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4. that's how they'd buy votes during the clientelistic centuries of LA--

Sun Mar 9, 2014, 05:03 PM

Mar 2014

in Central America most villagers still only get beef when the local dominant party has a "vote totally for us BBQ"

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Alcohol banned in Colombia as country prepares for congress election [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2014 OP

Frankly, I think the USA ought to make Election Day "Get Drunk Day" longship Mar 2014 #1

Damned right! It would clearly have to go better. Judi Lynn Mar 2014 #2

Nah!!! We'd end up in a civil war over shaken or stirred. longship Mar 2014 #3