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One could not say, based on the experience of the Cuban people over the last ten years that the Cold War has ended, it has merely been 'tropicalized'.
A partir de la experiencia vivida por el pueblo cubano en la última década, no podría admitirse la afirmación de que la Guerra Fría ha llegado a su fin, sólo se ha "tropicalizado".
With the canvas and bamboo shelters, their cargo bays filled with drowsy men, their hulls eaten away by rust, their sides peppered with dents and bullet holes, these American vessels – simple and serviceable as all things American – took on, in Indochine, a tropical, ramshackle air, a tired, makeshift air that accentuated the damp clanking of the diesel engine; it seemed that at any moment it would cut out and everything would come to a standstill.
Con su refugio de tela y de bambú, su cala repleta de hombres somnolientos, su metal comido por el óxido, sus paredes de hojalata abollada y perforada por rosarios de impactos, esos barcos americanos sencillos y funcionales, como todo lo americano, adoptaban, como todas las cosas en Indochina, un aire tropicalizado, chabolesco, un aire de fatiga y de bricolaje que acentuaba el martilleo mojado del diésel. Uno esperaba a cada momento que se ahogasen y se detuviesen.
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