Weekly Report - 19 June 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

Divisions have become increasingly marked in Tarija, the fourth and final region gearing up to hold an illegal plebiscite on autonomy on 22 June, (after Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni). While the autonomy votes in the other three regions proved relatively plain-sailing for the prefects concerned, elections recently held in Yacuiba, capital of Tarija's Gran Chaco province, have provided Tarija prefect Mario Cossí­o with a headache.