Today around 1, 200 local families are part of a successful co-operative called Oro Verde, or Green Gold, which grows organic and fair-trade coffee and cocoa.

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On day eight, after awakening from your bed at the five-star The Hotel Oro Verde, you will have a full day in Guayaquil to explore at your leisure before departing for Miami in the evening.

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He has rollers in Havana make him cigars with Pele de Oro tobacco and, in the 50-odd trips he's taken to Cuba since that drive in the country, he's ordered more and more and has had bands made for them bearing his name.

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Now on verge of becoming nation's second-largest banker, once merger with his Banco de Oro and Equitable PCI is finalized ( Click here for story).

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