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Thanks, I don't pretend to know how all that works in Argentina.

So cuevas are buddies with those in power? Wouldn't that mean they get extorted to stay in business? And if they don't come up with the requested bribes, or otherwise run afoul of their "sponsors" then they get shut down and the customers are SOL?

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Yeah so there, and Brazil, there are for sure businesses that can handle the level of racket--but they're locals, and connected. Speaking the language is fairly critical. Being chill. Immigrants starting a business never get a toehold, the price doubles every time they pay it pretty much. Unless...unless you're magical or some shit, like unbelievable, next level. Oh you know who? Truecrypt author, Paul Le Roux, him.

Well if they shut down who else is gonna exchange your worthless pesos for hard currency?

I didn't mean all of them. Just the one you're unlucky enough to be with.

Hundreds of millions move through those, including importers and exporters from foreign markets with mafia connections. A figurative hornet's nest to disturb.

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