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“Gasoline is a dollar a gallon and most vehicles were small cars or diesels and many people go on horseback, too,” said Mike Smoot.
MIKE TUPPER showed some of the clothing which he had purchased there, all handmade and embroidered, and Mike Smoot was proud of his purchases of leather goods, which he said had to be bargained for with the vendors. You never pay the original asking price, he said.
El Salvador is the only Central American country without a Caribbean coast. It is the smallest country and the most highly industralized. It is also the most crowded, with a density of more than 300 persons per square mile. Hie volcanos, which have made the land fertile, are still active and wherever you stand, you can see at least one.
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