Development: On 11 January three people were killed in Yapacaní, on the western borders of the province of Santa Cruz. Significance: Protests are everyday occurrences in Bolivia but they rarely produce fatalities. When they do, ministers are sacked and governments totter. The protests and deaths in Yapacaní are doubly dangerous for the central government led by President Evo Morales because they appear to be the result of a feud inside the ruling Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) which the government may have allowed to fester. Yapacaní is also in a politically sensitive geographical location, at the extreme west of the department…
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