For breakfast, stop into Passage, an alley off the small, glitzy street, Khreschatyk, right before you hit Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square.

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But in the capital La Paz's main square on independence day, bands played the national anthem, veterans marched in their old uniforms and supporters cheered for the president.

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