Protesters decry relocating capital
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of thousands of Bolivians packed the streets of La Paz to protest efforts to relocate the capital.
La Paz is home to the government’s executive and legislative branches, while Sucre, a sleepy colonial city 255 miles to the southeast, houses the country’s highest courts.
Sucre’s delegates in an assembly rewriting Bolivia’s Constitution are pushing to move the entire government to their city, site of Bolivia’s founding in 1825 and once its sole capital.
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