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    Vol.63/No.13           April 5, 1999 
 
 
Economic crisis deepens in Peru  
Police evicted some 2,500 street vendors - not without a fight - on February 18 in Lima, Peru. For several hours the vendors, trying to hold their ground, battled about 300 national guards and 300 municipal police. Owners of small factories and clothing stores near a busy shopping where vendors have been for about 15 years had complained of unfair competition.

 
 
 
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