The Bolivian government said on Sunday that it had reached a compromise with the opposition. The opposition and supporters of the government clashed with each other for several days in the province of Pando. The fighting left 28 people dead, according to government officials.

The deal was the result of eight hour long talks in the capital, La Paz.

A state of emergency remains in the province, however. Government troops have taken over Pando’s capital Cobija.

The situation in Bolivia worried neighboring Chile. This country’s government called an emergency meeting of the Union of South American Nations earlier ‘to help promote a democratic solution to the crisis before it spreads throughout the region.’

Bolivia’s Interior Minister Alfredo Rada said the government had ordered the arrest of the region’s Governor, Leopoldo Fernandez. He is accused of hiring “Brazilian and Peruvian assassins” to carry out the “ambush” of farmers supportive of President Morales.

Bolivian ambassador to the UK, Maria Beatriz Souviron Crespo added that Mr Fernandez was “acting outside of the law.”

“He’s provoking violence in the region. We have lost many lives. And life is very precious, for this country, for this government, and for everybody,” she said.

A local farmers’ leader, Shirley Segovia, told Erbol radio that the victims “were killed like pigs, with machine guns, with rifles, with shotguns, with revolvers.”

Fernandez himself, meanwhile, denied any involvement in the violent clashes. “The government has a great ability to distort things, and its arguments are always the same – accusations without reason,” he told radio channel Radio Fides.

Details about the deal are, as of yet, unknown. The initial problem was that President Morales wanted to amend the constitution in order to distribute the country’s wealth (from gas sales) more equally among the population and to, in general, help the country’s poor indigenous population. Additionally, Morales wanted to make it possible for the government to redistribute land, meaning that those who own more lands than the government deems necessary would lose their possessions.