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Bolivian police mutiny over pay widens
http://news.yahoo.com/bolivian-police-mutiny-over-pay-widens-164506233.html....LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A mutiny by rank-and-file Bolivian police demanding wage increases has spread across the nation, with about 4,000 officers occupying barracks.
Protesters sacked and set fire to furniture and documents in one police office in La Paz on Friday but the protest otherwise appeared peaceful.
It began Thursday when about 30 police and their wives seized an elite unit's barracks just 100 meters from the presidential palace.
President Evo Morales was in the palace on Friday, protected by helmeted military police with assault rifles. He has not yet commented on the mutiny.
