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...Bolivia. There are about 250 prisoners here - and also 100 kids. In fact, the country's lock-ups house more than 1,400 children behind electrified, fence-topped walls and below shotgun-guarded towers. Among the prisoner-mothers at the Women's Correctional Facility is Andrea Virginia Tapia, who has been behind bars for four years and is expected to be released next year. (She won't discuss her crime.) "Above all in this life, I am a mother," says Tapia, who is in her 30s and is the mother of seven kids, four of whom live in the prison...
...symbol and a warning of how this year is going to be.' GERARDO PRIEGO TAPIA, Mexican Congressman, after masked gunmen attacked the country's top television station for reporting on local drug traffickers...
...will you adjust your managing style to work with the type of talent we have here in L.A.? Angelique Tapia, LOS ANGELES...
...will you adjust your managing style to work with the type of talent we have here in L.A.? -Angelique Tapia, Los AngelesWe have a lot of fine young players, [but] you have to make sure you take nothing for granted, as far as what they know. I have to keep reminding myself that. You have to make sure you do chapter and verse with all of them...
...Tapia, like many Peruvians here and abroad, was unable to reach her family by phone, due to the collapse of the country's telephone system. Service was still iffy at mid-day Thursday. Garcia singled out Peru's telecom companies during his radio address, complaining that since the country is located in an earthquake belt, they have less excuse for not keeping their systems prepared for temblors. He ordered Transportation and Communication Minister Veronica Zavala to hold emergency meetings with the firms to resolve the problem...