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The 10 kidnap victims--seized on Pablo Escobar's orders, for the purpose of pressuring the government of Colombia not to extradite anyone--are presented as wholly admirable.
2440 (1998), as incorporated by District of Colombia Convention Center Revenues, Pub.
The concept continues through the Spanish word for `weight': peso (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Philippines, Uruguay); its diminutive: peseta (Spain), and the same word in Portuguese: peso (Guinea-Bissau).
Take, for instance, the various ways they characterize the concept of “playing dumb”: In Bolivia it is “to become an Italian”: hacerse el italiano ; in Colombia the English get it with hacerse el inglés ; in Mexico one becomes a gourd-- hacerse guaje --and El Salvador's hacerse el papo equates playing the fool with one who has a double chin; hacerse chino in Equador means `to fool someone [by acting like a Chinese].
Two unnamed government sources suggested to the LAT that estimates of cocaine production in Colombia alone could triple.