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Ehe die Jungs wissen, wie ihnen geschieht, verschenken sie Sportautos, Diamantringe zum einmonatigen Jubiläum.
The next thing you know, the boys are giving out sports cars and diamond rings for one-month anniversary presents.
Manchmal bewirkt Geld mehr als Gewalt, und der Respekt, den sich Amado im Lauf der Zeit erworben hatte, beruhte nicht zuletzt auf großzügigen Geldzuwendungen an seine Männer, Sportautos, die er den Mächtigen schenkte, und Spenden an die Kirche, beispielsweise für den Bau eines Gotteshauses in seinem Ge-burtsort Guamuchilito.
Violence was Amado’s daily bread, but money can sometimes prove more effective than violence, and the respect that Amado had managed to earn for himself over time was in part the fruit of the big tips he lavished on his men, the sports cars he gave to powerful people, his generous donations to build churches, like the one it is said he had built in his native village of Guamuchilito.
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