Protesters angry with Bolivian government efforts to rewrite the constitution attacked police offices and set fire to a jail Nov. 25, allowing more than 100 inmates to escape, as violent protests claimed the lives of a police officer and a protester.

At least three people have been killed since Nov. 23 in street protests in Sucre, where the opposition has been boycotting an assembly writing Bolivia's Constitution.

The conflict is being flamed by calls for greater autonomy from the federal government in provinces hostile to President Evo Morales and his push to redesign the government to grant greater voice to the country's generally poor indigenous majority.

Part of the dispute is over whether Bolivia's capital should be moved from La Paz to Sucre. Morales loyalists accuse the opposition, which is based in the politically conservative east, of exploiting the issue to further divide the country.