"This arrest would not have happened without the public's help, and it demonstrates how much individual citizens can do to help law enforcement attack crime, " ICE Director John Morton said in a statement issued Friday.

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Many Bolivians came to accept coca eradication in the Chapare as a necessary attack on organised crime.

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The Conservatives are using an opposition day debate to attack the government's crime record.

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