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Saturday Is a Country

El sábado es un país

Sixty years ago, a boy left a white house with a mango tree in Venezuela. This Saturday, at a market stall in Bogotá, someone on a phone screen still remembers his name.

Part 3 of 3 in The Saturday Traveler

Es sábado en Bogotá. Hernando va al mercado con Mariana. «Abuelo, ¿quién es Yaneth?», dice Mariana.

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