to the Bolivian government, there was evidence that the coup attempt had the backing of the US Ambassador to Bolivia Philip Goldberg. Backers of the coup seized public buildings and airports in the Departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija, attacked government officials and Morales supporters, and called for civil disobedience. People living in the Media Luna, for the most part, favored the coup. Initially the coup had some success but the Porvenir Massacre on September 11 and the violence and looting carried out by the coup supporters, turned public opinion against the coup little by little. The coup was definitely defeated when the Morales government decided to declare Mr. Goldberg persona non grata and to expel him from Bolivia. With no external support and public opinion against it, the attempted coup was completely defeated. Autonomy policy Evo Morales and the MAS government subsequently adopted autonomy as a government policy and departmental autonomies were recognised in the new Bolivian constitution, approved in a referendum in January 2009. As well as departmental autonomy, the new constitution recognises municipal, provincial and indigenous autonomies. 2009 2009 election Following the approval of the new Constitution of Bolivia in the January 2009 referendum, new elections were called. Morales won the 2009 general election with a landslide majority, polling 64%. His party, Movement for Socialism, also won a two-thirds majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Alleged Assassination attempt On April 16, 2009, Bolivian police killed three men and arrested two others in what was called an assassination plot against Morales. The three men were all foreigners: Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, from Hungary; Michael Dwyer, from Ireland; and Árpád Magyarosi, from Romania. Police said the men discussed bombing a boat on Lake Titicaca where Morales and his cabinet had been meeting on 3 April 2009. 2010 Cabinet Unless otherwise specified, Ministerial transitions occurred during annual appointments in January: on 23 January in 2010, 2011, and 2012. The cabinet of Morales' second administration was appointed on 23 January 2010. In a gesture of gender equity, it consists of ten men and ten women, seven of whom continued their previous service. Constitutional transition Morales' second inauguration, on 22 January 2010, marked the beginning of the new Plurinational State of Bolivia, as defined by the 2009 Constitution. The Constitution also required a set of five structural laws, with a deadline of 180 days following 22 January for