Bolivia's Miss Universe contender under fire for 'racist and discriminatory' remarks on social media [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Bolivia's Miss Universe contender under fire for 'racist and discriminatory' remarks on social media that targeted rival contestants, including two she said looked like 'transsexuals'

• Miss Bolivia, Maria Fernanda Pavisic, is under fire for remarks she made on a video posted to Instagram about Miss Universe 2023 contestants
  
• Pavisic said Miss Venezuela and Miss Peru looked like 'transsexuals'
  
• The 23-year-old referred to Miss Argentina as 'Miss Potosí,' which was considered an insult to the women of the southern Bolivian city of Potosí
  
• The Potosí mayor's office then filed a criminal complaint against Pavisic
  
• It accused her of discrimination and racism and called for the Miss Universe franchise to remove her Miss Bolivia title
  
  By ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
  
  PUBLISHED: 16:06 EST, 24 November 2022 | UPDATED: 20:35 EST, 24 November 2022
  
  
  Bolivia's representative for the Miss Universe beauty pageant is being sued for remarks she made in a video about her fellow contestants.
  
  A local city government is seeking to ban Maria Fernanda Pavisic, 23, from the contest after she posted remarks that were deemed disparaging against other contestants on her Instagram account.
  
  The mayor's office from the southern city of Potosí filed a complaint with the South American nation's Office of the Attorney General, accusing Maria Fernanda Pavisic of discrimination and racism.
  
  The Potosí city government is also seeking to have her stripped of her Miss Bolivia title.
  
  Miss Bolivia Maria Fernanda Pavisic has come under fire after she posted a video on Instagram last week in which she referred to Miss Paraguay, Miss Brazil and Miss El Salvador as 'old ladies' and said that Miss Venezuela and Miss Peru resembled 'transsexuals.' In the video clip, the 23-year-old model and psychology student referred to Miss Argentina as 'Miss Potosí' - Potosí is a city in southern Bolivia. The municipality's mayoral office filed a complaint with the South American nation's Office of the Attorney General, accusing her of discrimination and racism
  
  More:
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11466629/Bolivias-Miss-Universe-representative-sued-racist-discriminatory-remarks.html
  
  
  
  (This reeking racism, etc. has happened repeatedly in Bolivia, always, of course, from members of the small elite European-descended "conquerer"-class which has ruthlessly, viciously controlled Bolivia since the invasion hundreds of years ago. Degrading racist remarks have frequently been flung by both female and male Miss and Mr. Bolivia contestants, to the media, one, a Mr. Bolivia, is the son of a previous US Peace Corp worker, Ronald Larsen, of Montana, who grabbed enough land to become mega-rich and been in trouble with Evo Morales' government for "slavery" issues. )