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/Sounds like "leh" (as in "let") + "CHOO" (as in "choose") + "gah" (as in "garden")/
The US dollar, named after the green color of the bills. In Peru and Venezuela, lechuga is the street slang for American currency, the one everybody wants to have.
“I exchanged some lechugas downtown at the best rate.”
“Everything's in lechugas, nobody accepts bolívares anymore.”
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The US dollar, named after the green color of the bills. In Peru and Venezuela, lechuga is the street slang for American currency, the one everybody wants to have.
“I exchanged some lechugas downtown at the best rate.”
“Everything's in lechugas, nobody accepts bolívares anymore.”
El malo de la película
The person everyone blames when something goes wrong, the narrative scapegoat of any group conflict. Across Latin America and Spain, ser el malo de la pelicula means being cast as the villain of the story, sometimes just for telling the truth nobody wanted to hear.