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Latin America

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1. are they moving back in?

Mon May 26, 2014, 03:22 PM

May 2014

they invented the "banana republic" and ensured their candidates won (though to be fair the opposing party was Standard Fruit)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiburcio_Carías_Andino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Ubico
UFCO got taken over--and the raider then went out the 44th floor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_M._Black

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