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Updated: 1:30 AM This story also appears on the following websites... EL ALTO, Bolivia — The little buses looked like any others as they rattled down the dirt streets of El Alto, collecting people headed to work in the pre-dawn chill. But authorities...
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"I woke up later in a Dumpster," Macario said. Gone were his cellphone and the equivalent of $55 in the local currency, bolivianos. Police last week announced the arrest of eight alleged members of the band, ranging in age from 30 to 45 and including...
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Jean Paul Pineda (R) from Chile's Union Espanola celebrates a goal against Bolivia's Bolivar while teammate looks on, at the Copa Libertadores soccer tournament in La Paz February 21, 2012. View Photo »
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...- 8 minutes ago Feb 22 (Reuters) - Results and standings from the Libertadores Cup matches on Tuesday: - - Group Three Bolivar (Bolivia) 1 Union Espanola (Chile) 3 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Union Espanola 2 2 0 0 5 1 6 2 Universidad Catolica 1 0 1 0 1...
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...- 8 minutes ago Feb 21 (Reuters) - Summaries of South American Libertadores Cup matches played on Tuesday: Group Three At the Hernando Siles, La Paz Bolivar (Bolivia) 1 - Edhemir Rodriguez 1 Union Espanola (Chile) 3 - Mauro Diaz 62, Emanuel Herrera 66, Jean...
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Breakfast and down to the quayside. The Dragoman trip coming the other way from Rio to Lima was in Copacabana at the same time as us although they were staying at a different hotel and it was arranged that the two groups would head out together to the...
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Emmanuel Herrera (R) from Chile's Union Espanola celebrates a goal against Bolivia's Bolivar while teammate Gonzalo Barriga looks on, at the Copa Libertadores soccer tournament in La Paz February 21, 2012. View Photo »
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69 people have been killed and dozens more were left for dead in El Alto, a working class city of one million people on an arid plateau above Bolivia's capital, La Paz. "This kind of assault came about because people, by necessity, take whatever...
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The NCB on Tuesday arrested Uday C Dhanak, imported car dealer from Santa Cruz, for cocaine smuggling. The NCB last week had arrested four persons-Dhanak, UK national Mir Rahi Hussain, Santander Tarazona from Bolivia and Juan Fernando from Columbia-and...
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Bolivia, officially the Republic of Bolivia (Spanish: República de Bolivia, IPA [re'puβlika ðe bo'liβi̯a], Quechua: Bulibiya, Aymara: Wuliwya), named after Simón Bolívar, is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west. Full Article
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Edemir Rodriguez of Bolivia's Bolivar, second from left, celebrates with teammate Damian Lizio, left, Rudy Cardozo, (10) and William Ferreira, right, after scoring a goal against Chile's Union Espanola during a Copa Libertadores soccer match in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Feb 21, 2012.
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Emanuel Herrera of Chile's Union Espanola, left, fights for the ball with Abdon Reyes of Bolivia's Bolivar during their Copa Libertadores soccer match in La Paz Bolivia, Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012. Union Espanola won 3-1.
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