Miami Herald (subscription), FL
On most Saturdays, Pilar Meza catches a bus to a nearby money transfer office here to collect $35 or $40 wired from a relative in the United States.
The scene is repeated hundreds of thousands of times a day every day at such offices throughout Latin America. On the other end of the money pipeline, relatives visit similar offices in the United States with money scrimped from paychecks and savings to send home, amounting to a well-known torrent of money.
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