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I love this. I love the Indian resistance. I love the socialist control of natural resources for the people. I love the resistance to corporations, and also to U.S. hegemony in the region, lately shown in the OAS's refusal to accept the US's nominee for head of the OAS (Organization of American States)... In their refusal to kowtow to the US's demands for "democracy" (read: free market)... Campesinos revolting, Zapatistas, Chavez, Uwe community suicide threat...
Viva la Revoluzione...
They say love it or leave it? If I had my way, I'd speak Spanish fluently, and move to some place like Venezuala. I'd love to contribute to the emerging socialist culture that's spreading there.
Source: IHT
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LA PAZ Indigenous protesters demanding the nationalization of the gas and oil industry took over seven oil fields belonging to British Petroleum and the Spanish company Repsol operating in eastern Bolivia, officials said here. Guarani Indians took over four fields belonging to Repsol and located north of the eastern city of Santa Cruz and 900 kilometers, or 560 miles, east of La Paz, said Ronald Fessy, a spokesman for the group representing the 20 foreign energy concerns operating in Bolivia. Other Guarani Indians took over three oil fields operated by British Petroleum, also in the area. Protesters earlier took over a pipeline station on the border with Chile, cutting off crude exports to the far northern Chilean port of Arica. In May, Bolivia's Congress passed a law increasing state royalties and taxes on oil and gas companies' revenues from 18 percent to 32 percent. Opposition demonstrators, however, have brought much of the country to a virtual standstill amid their demands of full nationalization of the energy sector. Bolivia has estimated natural gas reserves of 53 trillion cubic feet, or 1.9 trillion cubic meters, second only to Venezuela in South America, according to U.S. Energy Department figures.
Viva la Revoluzione...
They say love it or leave it? If I had my way, I'd speak Spanish fluently, and move to some place like Venezuala. I'd love to contribute to the emerging socialist culture that's spreading there.
Source: IHT
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LA PAZ Indigenous protesters demanding the nationalization of the gas and oil industry took over seven oil fields belonging to British Petroleum and the Spanish company Repsol operating in eastern Bolivia, officials said here. Guarani Indians took over four fields belonging to Repsol and located north of the eastern city of Santa Cruz and 900 kilometers, or 560 miles, east of La Paz, said Ronald Fessy, a spokesman for the group representing the 20 foreign energy concerns operating in Bolivia. Other Guarani Indians took over three oil fields operated by British Petroleum, also in the area. Protesters earlier took over a pipeline station on the border with Chile, cutting off crude exports to the far northern Chilean port of Arica. In May, Bolivia's Congress passed a law increasing state royalties and taxes on oil and gas companies' revenues from 18 percent to 32 percent. Opposition demonstrators, however, have brought much of the country to a virtual standstill amid their demands of full nationalization of the energy sector. Bolivia has estimated natural gas reserves of 53 trillion cubic feet, or 1.9 trillion cubic meters, second only to Venezuela in South America, according to U.S. Energy Department figures.
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