Suchitoto is also home to Robert Broz Moran, known to all as El Gringo.

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The real impact of the new gringo aggression is potentiating the patriotic and nationalist morale of Venezuela.

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We're just getting into the rainy season here and my Gringo Bond Street boots just aren't cutting it.

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Holding court from his eight-bed hostel, El Gringo is full of information about El Salvadorian history, politics, culture and wildlife.

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His 1985 novel "Old Gringo" was a bestseller in the United States.

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This has caused near-panic among such people, and rage in their home countries, to whom it typifies gringo blindness at best, contempt at worst.

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Nothing unusual, but it augured well, especially for the Free-Trade Area of the Americas the proposed trade pact that Lula once dismissed as a gringo cabal.

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Building on the work of his mother, Carmen Broz, El Gringo runs an important educational programme that helps the poorest local children progress their schooling.

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He was not a gringo-basher by nature.

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On return visits he started collecting old cigar molds (he now owns 200) and old books, pamphlets and dissertations, going door to door in Havana to buy them up--until word spread of the crazy gringo and prices shot up.

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