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And it's not full of pompous ex-colonials thinking they were born to rule the world.
Y no esta lleno de pomposas ex-colonias pensando que han nacido para mandar el mundo.
"Gifts from the ex-colonies, Phillip," Tommy said.
—Traigo unos regalos de las ex colonias, Phillip —dijo Tommy—.
By 1993, he showed up in Ostend, Belgium, a jumping-off point to move into Africa via the Belgian ex-colony, the permanently war-torn Congo.
En 1993 se dejó ver en Ostende, Bélgica, trampolín hacia África vía el Congo, la ex colonia belga sacudida permanente por la guerra.
His enterprise had caused hundreds of the latest most elaborate tractors donated to an ex-colony up north to lie rotting and rusting around the edges of as many fields: spare parts, know-how and fuel had been lacking, quite apart from the agreement of the local people, who would have liked something less grandiose.
Gracias a sus gestiones, centenares de sofisticados tractores de última generación, donados a una ex colonia del norte, se pudrían y oxidaban en las lindes de otros tantos campos: habían faltado piezas, instrucciones y combustible, además del consentimiento de los granjeros locales, que habrían preferido unas máquinas menos ostentosas.
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