Vigilantes go into action after rapes
By Associated Press in La Asunta, Bolivia | China Daily | Updated: 2015-06-11 07:58
Coca town bans alcohol, takes law into own hands to keep streets safe
The dance hall is closed. There's no beer at the bar. And restaurant patrons have to quench their thirst with soda.
Neighborhood leaders have imposed a sort of vigilante dry law in the coca-growing mountain town of La Asunta, hoping to end a series of rapes and other crimes.
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