Political crisis between departments demanding autonomy and national government
2008 Bolivian political crisis
Protesters supporting the autonomy of Santa Cruz. Autonomy movements also took place in other Eastern Bolivian departments.
Date
August 2008 – October 2008
Location
Santa Cruz Department and other eastern Bolivian ones
Result
Referendum held, crisis ends
Belligerents
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Armed Forces of Bolivia
Morales supporters
Media Luna
Santa Cruz
Pando
Beni
Tarija
Commanders and leaders
Evo Morales
Rubén Costas
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The 2008 Bolivian political crisis saw protests against President Evo Morales and calls for greater autonomy for the country's eastern departments. Demonstrators escalated the protests by seizing natural gas infrastructure and government buildings. In response, supporters of the national government and its reform of the constitution, mobilized across these regions.
Violence between supporters of Morales and opponents, which reached its peak in the Porvenir massacre on September 11, resulted in at least 15 deaths.[1]
^Bjork-James, Carwil (2019). "Race and the Right to Speak for the City: Political Violence in Bolivia's 2006–2009 Stalemate". UAS: Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development. 48 (3–4): 273.
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