"Troops Deployed In Move to Block Foreign Influence"

Oh goody.

On 5/2/06, Gruss Gott wrote:
>
> 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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