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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - National maps give them both a star, but for more than a century, the seat of Bolivia's government has been in high-altitude La Paz. Now Sucre, a provincial lowland city where the highest courts are based, wants the executive and legislative branches as well.
The unlikely proposal plays into a regional rivalry between supporters and opponents of President Evo Morales, with each side accusing the other of trying to carve up the country.
"Listen, the capital is not a piece a bread," Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera scoffed this week. "It's not a roll or a potato to haggle over or sell."
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