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Today's Video Focus: Eight soldiers were taken hostage in clashes with protesters in the city
of Cochabamba on Saturday, with seven eventually being rescued.
Arturo Murillo, a government minister, said the soldiers were guarding a
caravan of dump trucks trying to unload at a city dump when residents
of the K'ara K'ara neighbourhood waited for them with sticks and stones,
refused to let them pass, and took eight hostages.
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| Saturday Conversations on Law |
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