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Riot gear

Updated on 06 May 2009

By Samantha Haque

More4 News asks, could your old trousers be causing riots in South America? 

It might sound like a bizarre question, but there have been clashes in Bolivia between police and second-hand clothes sellers angered at government attempts to clamp down on the trade in important western castoffs.

Samantha  Haque looks at the global economics of pre-worn clothing. 

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