Pereira

American

[puh-rair-uh, pe-rey-rah] / pəˈrɛər ə, pɛˈreɪ rɑ /

noun

Irene Rice, 1907–71, U.S. artist.
a city in W Colombia.

Pereira British

/ peˈrɛira /

noun

a town in W central Colombia: cattle trading and coffee processing. Pop: 656 000 (2005 est)

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Martha Lucia Pereira, chief executive of luxury real estate agency PresVip, has witnessed the influx of foreign capital at first hand, saying 99 percent of her clients are Latin American.

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Pereira said droves of Latin Americans have arrived in the past decade to invest, starting with Venezuelans and Colombians, joined later by Argentines and Mexicans.

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As the first explosions rocked his military base in Caracas, 18-year-old Saul Pereira Martinez sent his mother a simple message: "I love you. It has begun."

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Pereira had finished his shift on guard duty at Fort Tiuna, where Maduro was sheltered that night.

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Pereira has been in custody since the coup.

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