Military controls Bolivian city after deadly clashes over gas

Monday, October 13, 2003

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivia's government imposed martial law on a city of 750,000 outside the Andean capital Sunday after a series of deadly clashes between troops and demonstrators protesting plans to export gas to the United States and Mexico.

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