Bolivian President Seizes Gas Industry
Troops Deployed In Move to Block Foreign Influence

By Monte Reel and Steven Mufson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, May 2, 2006; Page A01

CARACAS, Venezuela, May 1 -- Bolivian President Evo Morales seized
control of the country's natural gas industry Monday, sending soldiers
to occupy fields that he contends private companies have plundered for
years.

Morales said that unless foreign energy firms agreed to give Bolivia's
state oil company oversight of production and a majority of their
revenue generated in Bolivia, the government would evict them from the
fields.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/01/AR2006050100583.html

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