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On a visit to La Paz (I was living in the Eastern lowlands) during this era I had my one and only experience of being teargassed: I was walking along and suddenly thought, "what am I feeling? am I about to have a nosebleed?" My face started streaming and then people were coming down the street the other way, retreating with their faces covered -- I was just running errands, but I realized tear gas must have been released at a demonstration: I was blocks away, I cannot imagine how painful it must be up close to be teargassed.