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<h1 class="reader-title">Bolivian mayor doused in red paint and
dragged through the streets by protesters</h1>
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<div><span><time datetime="Thu Nov 07 2019 15:29:35
GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"
data-format="l" title="Thu 7 Nov 2019, 3:29pm"><span>7
Nov 2019</span></time></span>
<p>Bolivia's President has condemned an attack on a
female Mayor in which a mob forcibly cut her hair,
covered her in paint and marched her barefoot
through the streets.</p>
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<h2>Key points:</h2>
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<li>Vindo Mayor Patricia Arce was dragged out
of the city hall and forced to walk barefoot
through the town</li>
<li>The ruling Movement for Socialism party
condemned the attack, saying it happened
because she is a woman</li>
<li>Bolivia has been gripped by violence after
opposition claims that the President rigged
the October election</li>
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<p>Bolivia has been rocked by deadly post-election
violence over opposition <a
href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-23/bolivians-protest-discrepancies-in-presidential-election-count/11630372"
target="_self" title="">claims that President
Evo Morales rigged his re-election last month</a>.</p>
<p>In the city of Vindo on Thursday (local time), a
mob stormed the municipal headquarters and dragged
Mayor Patricia Arce into the street before setting
the building ablaze.</p>
<p>Images showed her on the ground, her hair cut,
and covered in red paint.</p>
<p>She was dragged and forced to walk barefoot
through the town by the mob, before being rescued
by police on motorcycles.</p>
<p>Mr Morales said in a tweet that Ms Arce — a
member of his ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS)
party — had been "cruelly abducted for expressing
and defending her ideals and the principles of the
poorest".</p>
<p>The party demanded the police bring the
perpetrators to justice.</p>
<p>Mr Arce's office told local media the Mayor was
recovering from her ordeal.</p>
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<p>"For these people, being a woman is a crime,
being humble is a crime, having a skirt is a
crime," Vice-President Alvaro Garcia said.</p>
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<p>"This has never happened in our democracy. That
is called fascism: attacking women, assaulting
them for their ethnic status. What Bolivia is
facing is a fascist wave."</p>
<p>The Women's Social Organisations, linked to the
ruling party, expressed "outrage" at the attack,
and "for all the insults <br>
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