BOGOTA -- Bogota's first woman mayor Claudia Lopez took office Wednesday promising leadership in the troubled Colombian capital and pledging to fight "racism, class distinctions and xenophobia." The center-left mayor, who married her same-sex partner last month, takes over a city that has become a focal point of countrywide protests against the rule of right-wing President Ivan Duque. Lopez, 49, broke with tradition and held her inauguration event in the city's Simon Bolivar park attended by hundreds of people. "Thank you to all for accompanying me in this special moment of my life by taking me as the first woman -- diverse woman -- elected as mayor in the history of Bogota,...
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