When, on Oct. 15, 2003, Filomena León was shot in the back by military soldiers in the Bolivian town of Patacamaya, near El Alto, she had no reason to believe hers would be anything other than an anonymous death in the Andes. "I was in front [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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as the Catholic Church testified in a public statement. “
Wow! The Catholic Church can talk? Or was this a “spokesperson” for the Catholic Church. We all know how reliable such people can be, odd that the *person* was not identified, only the organization. . .
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