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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #473333;"><strong>Bolivia’s president condemns actions after protesters drag mayor through streets, cut her hair and cover her in red paint</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #473333;"><strong>Patricia Arce was abducted, shorn of her hair, then forced to hold a metal pole as she was paraded, barefoot, around the streets</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #473333;"><strong>With red paint covering her face, hair and clothes, Arce, mayor of the governing Movement to Socialism Party in the town of Vinto, was dragged through the streets by masked protesters </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #473333;"><strong>Protesters marched Arce to the town hall as they yelled “murderess, murderess</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334522" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Patricia-Arce-1.jpg" alt="A mob burns a Town Hall and veils its Mayor in Bolivia, Vinto - 06 Nov 2019" width="800" height="556" /><strong>Protesters in the town of Vinto marched Mayor <span style="color: var(--color-text);">Patricia Arce </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">to the town hall as they yelled “murderess, murderess. Addressing the media later Arce </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">said she would give her life for the truth</span></strong></h6>
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<div class=""><span style="color: var(--color-text);">Bolivia’s president condemned actions after protesters dragged a Bolivian mayor barefoot through the streets, cut her hair, covered her in red paint and forced her to sign a resignation letter on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Patricia Arce, mayor of the governing Movement to Socialism Party in the town of Vinto, was dragged through the streets by masked protesters who marched to town hall as they yelled “murderess, murderess,” accusing her for being responsible for reported three deaths that resulted from a series of protests following the election on Oct. 20, </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50332167?ocid=socialflow_twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BBC reported</a><span style="color: var(--color-text);">.<br />
Arce had been kidnapped by the masked protesters, who cut her hair which was then douse with red paint along with the rest of her clothing. She was then forced to hold a metal pole as she was <a href="https://twitter.com/Marco_Teruggi/status/1192188751314857984" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">paraded</a>, barefoot, around the streets wearing the red paint that covered her face, hair and clothes.<br />
Mayor Arce who belongs to the governing Mas party was handed over to police in Vinto after several hours.<br />
</span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">President Evo Morales who controversially won a fresh mandate after 13 years in office, has condemned the actions against Acre: </span><span style="color: var(--color-text);">“All my solidarity with our sister mayor of Vinto, Patricia Arce, kidnapped and cruelly abducted for expressing and defending her ideals and the principles of the poorest.<br />
“We condemn the violent actions that cause mourning and pain in the Bolivian family,”</span><a href="https://twitter.com/evoespueblo/status/1192257018054225921?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Morales said in a tweet</a><span style="color: var(--color-text);">.</span></p>
<h6 data-page="1"><img class="alignnone wp-image-334541" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Evo-Morales-tweet-1.jpg" alt="Evo Morales tweet 1.JPG" width="754" height="773" /><strong>President Evo Morales tweeted his support for mayor Patricia Arce, who belongs to his ruling Mas party</strong></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-334523" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Patricia-Arce-2.jpg" alt="Patricia Arce 2" width="661" height="1168" /><strong><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> “I’m not afraid to tell my truth. And I’m in a free country. And I’m not going to shut up and if they want to kill me, they kill me. As I’ve said before, for this process of change, I will give my life,” Patricia Arce said addressing media while surrounded by the protesters on Wednesday</span></strong></h6>
<p><span style="color: var(--color-text);">As BBC reports, this was the latest in a series of violent clashes between government supporters and opponents in the wake of controversial presidential elections.</span></p>
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<p>After a 24-hour delay in the result count on the day of the election, clashes have ensued over the last two weeks between supporters and opponents of President Morales, who won the presidential election when the results were finally announced. Morales has been president since 2006, and protesters have suspicions that the election was rigged to allow him to remain president for another five years, BBC reported.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Morales has refused to accept the results of a 2016 referendum that kept limits on presidential terms. Following a decision by the top electoral court in Bolivia, Morales was allowed to seek a fourth term.</span></p>
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<p>An opposition led by former president Carlos Mesa is rejecting an audit from the Organization of American States on the election results, which are expected next week.</p>
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<p>Mesa was less than one point away from forcing a runoff against Morales in the election.<br />
A group of anti-government protesters was blocking a bridge in Vinto, a small town in Cochabamba province in central Bolivia, as part of their ongoing demonstrations following the presidential election on 20 October.</p>
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<p>Arce was accused by protesters of busing in supporters of Morales to break a blockade they had made, and was blamed for the reported deaths of three people amid the post-election clashes.</p>
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<p>As rumors spread that two opposition protesters had been killed nearby in clashes with supporters of Morales, an angry group to marched to the city hall Wednesday, where they grabbed Arce and dragged her barefoot through the city to a bridge.<br />
Arce was forced to kneel on the ground as they cut her hair, covered her in red paint and forced her to sign a resignation letter, BBC reported.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">In a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ischargro/status/1192210927342493696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1192210927342493696&;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eldesconcierto.cl%2F2019%2F11%2F06%2Fvideos-queman-edificio-unicipal-cortan-el-pelo-y-echan-pintura-encima-a-alcaldesa-en-bolivia%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">video</a><span style="color: var(--color-text);"> circulating on social media, Arce, is seen surrounded by masked protesters saying: “I’m not afraid to tell my truth. And I’m in a free country. And I’m not going to shut up and if they want to kill me, they kill me. As I’ve said before, for this process of change, I will give my life.”<br />
</span>The protesters, armed with wooden batons and stones, also set fire to the city hall.</p>
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<h6 class="Icon Icon--replyCTA " title="View conversation on Twitter" role="img" aria-label="View conversation on Twitter"><img class="alignnone wp-image-334524" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Patricia-Arce-3.jpg" alt="Patricia Arce 3" width="815" height="448" /><strong><strong>Opponents of Bolivia&#8217;s president Evo Morales on Wednesday lynched and beat the mayor of the city of Vinto, Patricia Arce, a Morales supporter who they accused of complicity in the deaths of three political protesters. They threw red paint over her and cut her hair, before parading the mayor barefoot through the streets</strong></strong></h6>
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-334546" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Patricia-Arce-5.jpg" alt="Patricia Arce 5" width="756" height="425" />Mayor Arce is seen when she was eventually handed over to the police who took her transported her to a local health center</strong></h6>
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<div title="View conversation on Twitter" role="img" aria-label="View conversation on Twitter"><span style="color: var(--color-text);">She was later turned over to Vinto police and taken to a health care center.</span></div>
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<p>Demonstrations were ongoing in many parts of the country Thursday.</p>
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<p class="stop-here" data-role="intersectionobserver">The United Nations called for investigations into the ongoing incidents across the country, and called for “dialogue and peace” by the government and opposition.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">“Nothing justifies clashes between Bolivians, and the death of citizens is inconceivable,” a statement from the UN said.</span></p>
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Culture of ‘Public lynching’ bothers Bolivia’s president after protesters drag mayor through streets, cut her hair and cover her in red paint
