1.   They pass a long, winding crack in the paved street he does re-member.

2.   But the biggest reason is that they continue to nurse wounds from an economic crisis the government insists has long since passed.

3.   Its fate, however, has long since passed out of the hands of its colonizers.

4.   They cite many motives, but the biggest reason is the wounds inflicted from an economic crisis the government insists has long since passed.