Portal:Latin America/Did you know/Week 31, 2006

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 * ...that Encomiendas were run by conquistadores, who were given the ability to tax their subjects but not to try them?
 * ...that the Peso is the name of the currency of seven countries in Latin America?
 * ...that the Petrobras 36 Oil Platform (P36) was the largest floating production platform in the world prior to its sinking in March, 2001?
 * ...that Colombia was the world's leading producer of cocaine, with three-quarters of the world's annual yield produced there?
 * ...that Telmex, a telecommunications company, had a revenue of $12.450.536 billion USD in 2005?