Bolivia: spliting into two camps

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:10 AM in Bolivia

As usual, MABB has an informative analysis of the situation in Bolivia, where 4 of the 9 departments have elected to reject the new constitution if the Constituent Assembly revokes the 2/3 majority rule. Governments and opposition forces have had some violent confrontations, resulting in almost 70 people wounded during one altercation.

In Santa Cruz city, groups of opposition supporters have burned offices, roughed-up government supporters. At the same time, groups of government supporters have also attacked their counterparts. In Sucre, while a group of church supporters gathered to pray and government supporters handed out leaflets against the Archbishop of Sucre, tensions broke down into violent acts.