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MisterP

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2. Latin American armies are very different from what one might expect--they're economic
Fri Dec 4, 2015, 11:34 PM
Dec 2015

entities, running the phone lines, dockside cranes, railways, plantations--all the accouterments of Progress; they even planned for a machine paradise, each village combining plantation, garrison, and religious congregation with the colonel-hacendado playing pastor; an "Army party" is almost an afterthought

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