Bryan Goebel

A student supporter of Evo Morales: Photo by ReutersBolivia's president and the governors of two opposition states, Santa Cruz and Tarija, have agreed to sit down for talks aimed at diffusing a political crisis that has lead to a wave of violence resulting in the deaths of at least a dozen people.

Jim Schultz of the Democracy Center, a global justice organization based in San Francisco and Cochabamba, talks about what lead up to the crisis and how the divisions in the country are based on class, ethnicity and region.