Portal:Latin America/Did you know/Week 31, 2006

...that Encomiendas were run by conquistadores, who were given the ability to tax their subjects but not to try them?
...that the Peso is the name of the currency of seven countries in Latin America?
...that the Petrobras 36 Oil Platform (P36) was the largest floating production platform in the world prior to its sinking in March, 2001?
...that as of 1999^[update] Colombia was the world's leading producer of cocaine, with three-quarters of the world's annual yield produced there?
...that Telmex, a telecommunications company, had a revenue of $12.450.536 billion USD in 2005?

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