In the mid-1980s , the government divided the department of PERSON@1 - consisting of the eastern half of the country - into two autonomous regions and granted the black and indigenous people of this region limited self-rule within the LOCATION@1 .

In the mid-1980s , the government divided the eastern half of the country - the former department of PERSON@1 - into two autonomous regions and granted the MISC@1 and indigenous people of the region limited self-rule .
