Bolivia’s Constituent Assembly has approved a new constitution that would increase the power of Bolivia’s indigenous majority. The vote took place in the Bolivian city of Sucre, where opponents of President Evo Morales have been protesting for days. At least three people have died in what Morales described as riots led by criminal groups.

Evo Morales: “I’m sure of that some groups will not accept that an indigenous person is president. That is the basis of this. As they have said permanently, we have to get rid of the Indian, knock down the Indian. They didn’t accept that, with social forces, the national government guarantee this process of change.”

Evo Morales accused former Bolivian president Jorge Quiroga, who leads the right-wing coalition the Social and Democratic Power, of promoting and planning the violence.