3. Mister Castro introduced

Colon 2000 duty free port, styled like a USA strip mall
We discovered ghee at an Arabian store that we found at the Colón 2000 mall. Local butter is “re-constituted”, and so will not clarify. Many processed food products sold here are diluted and denatured in order to be priced within reach of the poor. While [...]

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2.5 First Impressions of Colon

2.5
Photo notes: The top pic is a side view of the main  boulevard in Colon. Notice the lush park in the street’s island. Bottom pic is a head-on view of same street. Colon’s Hindu temple and it’s garden are just three blocks from me.
 
We took a taxi to Margarita, which used to contain civilian housing [...]

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