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Monday, October 13, 2003

Five Protesters Die in Bolivia After President Calls in Troops

A spokesman for the president announced the troop mobilization and said it was meant to retake control of El Alto, a suburb of the capital that has been the focal point of a general strike in recent days. The government "is no longer willing to tolerate the situation of violence" in that city, most of whose residents are peasant migrants of Indian origins.

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