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Autonomy Referendum To Go Ahead

April 2008 | Risk Summary

Bolivia's political environment continues to deteriorate and the country has received another downgrade in our short-term political ratings. President Evo Morales has stepped up his efforts in a bid to avoid a referendum on regional autonomy by Santa Cruz prefect Rubén Costas, which his spokesman says could put the country in 'imminent danger' of breaking up. Autonomists held a huge rally on April 2 in Santa Cruz in support of their cause, which organisers claimed saw 300,000 people turn out. Costas, along with Branko Marinkovic, the president of the Comité Cívico (the pro Santa Cruz civic committee) have demanded a

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