Clashes between both sides have rendered the once-bustling middle class shopping street into a combat wasteland.

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Sao Paulo's Bolivian immigrants tend to congregate on Coimbra Street, a couple of blocks from a bustling wholesale textile market.

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Pop-up street food markets are becoming a regular feature for the bustling lunchtime trade.

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And as I heaved the stroller through the door and onto the bustling street, I wondered if I was ever going to make a mom friend in this town.

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Along the bustling strip, a four-storey mural of Indianapolis native and praised author Kurt Vonnegut oversees the street, which is full of food, drink and shopping opportunities.

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