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...In late 2007, Pinedo was crowned sole Afro-Bolivian king at a ceremony in La Paz....
...Ruben Costas, governor of Santa Cruz, on Sunday night accused Mr Morales of being a tyrant and said his province would not back down on its desire for autonomy....
...Ruben Costas, governor of Santa Cruz, accused Mr Morales of being a tyrant and said his province would not back down on its desire for autonomy....
...“I am convinced that we will not retreat a millimetre nor move one step to the side,” Ruben Costas, the governor of Santa Cruz, told tens of thousands of jubilant supporters waving the department’s green...
...Yet for many Bolivians, including Mr Morales, approval of the Santa Cruz plans would lead to a de facto declaration of independence from the central government in La Paz....
...Rubén Costas, the departmental prefect, told the crowd they had now assured the autonomy of Santa Cruz....
...The first action of the department’s newly elected prefect, Rubén Costas, was to call for a summit on how to advance devolving more power to Santa Cruz....
...At the same time, the fact that voters have for the first time elected the leaders, or prefects, of Bolivia’s nine departments represents an important decentralisation in politics away from La Paz, the capital...
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