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In the mid-2000s motorcycles started pouring onto the Paraguayan market. Rebranded Chinese rides like Moto Star, Kenton and Yamazuki were not only affordable to the masses with no money down financing yah-yah, but with no drivers test nor need to know how to ride, they could be purchased on a whim by just about anyone; and they were.

Not surprisingly, this lawlessness ha...


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