Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Bolivian Autonomy Vote May Undercut Morales, Spark Violence."
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Peter DeShazo, director of the CSIS Americas Program, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Bolivian Autonomy Vote May Undercut Morales, Spark Violence."
Bolivia's wealthiest province votes this weekend on whether to back autonomy from the central government in a vote President Evo Morales says is "illegal" and backed by a "radical" opposition.
Voters in the eastern province of Santa Cruz, where the country's natural gas industry is based, cast ballots May 4 on a statute for more control over security, energy and farming policies in a challenge to central government rule.[...]
"This is a real challenge to the government and to Morales's skills as a leader," said Peter DeShazo, director of the Americas program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Read the article
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