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Paraguay: Ycuá Bolaños Tragedy

Written byDavid Sasaki
Posted 22 June 2006 23:19 GMT

Posthegemony describes a visit to the site of the Ycuá Bolaños tragedy in Asunción “in which over 400 people died when the supermarket owner ordered the doors locked so that shoppers wouldn't rob the store of its produce en route to escaping with their lives.”

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