Social Cleavages in Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay

Author(s): Riccardo Gefter Wondrich
Publisher(s): Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (CeMiSS), Rome, Italy
Publication: CASD CeMiSS Quarterly Summer 2008
Date of publication: 2008
From Page 51 to 56

Description: Last May and June four departments in the South-East of Bolivia -Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija- carried out a referendum for autonomy, not recognized by the Electoral National Court. President Evo Morales had tried to prevent the referendums by all means -also appealing to the Organization of American States and to the Catholic Church- considering them "illegal and separatist". The popular consultations were approved by large majority thus strengthening the political power of the opposition forces. Then, on June 29, one more political defeat for Morales came from the elections for the governor of Chuquisaca department.

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