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According to the most recent exit polls, a referendum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia has given that largest state autonomy from the central government. While supporters of the effort hit the streets to celebrate a victory, the election was colored by violence between the two sides. President Evo Morales declared the vote a failure.

This illegal and unconstitutional poll has not had the success that some families and groups in the state of Santa Cruz had hoped for,” Morales said.
The president said nearly 40 percent of eligible voters did not go to the polls — and that their absence amounted to a rejection of autonomy effort, which pits an eastern state rich in oil and natural gas with a central government led by a leftist president.

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