Cliff dwellers in Bolivia's capital fear deadly rains

AP Worldstream | February 23, 2002| | Copyright

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Dateline: LA PAZ, Bolivia When it's rainy season, Guillermina Ortega is afraid in her tiny adobe house perched on a cliff outside Bolivia's mountain capital.

"Sometimes I can feel my house shifting," said Ortega, 32, who grinds out a meager living selling meals on the streets and moved to the area because it is the cheapest place to live.

Torrential rain and hail earlier this week turned La Paz's streets into muddy rivers and caused floods that killed at least 69 people, mainly in the city's center. Ortega's house filled with water during Tuesday's flash storm ...

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