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Word: curagao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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...while, the corpulent Santos was content to live on the heavy tribute he exacted from Maracaibo bordellos. Later, in a historic act of direct plunder, he loaded $3,000,000 in gold from the state treasury aboard a German airliner and took off for the Dutch island of Curagao. Juan Vicente clucked at such mischief, and on Santos' return made him president of the state of Carabobo. When Juan Vicente died in 1935, Santos flew off to Curacao again, this time with $45 million in boodle. Then he dropped from the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Shrunken Santos | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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