REFLEKSI: Negeri Bolivia menasionalisasi perusahaan-peruahaan pengolah kekayaan alamnya, tetapi di Indonesia dilakukan sebaliknya , obral ya mas atau bagaimana Pak Presiden. Apakah politik ekonomi yang dijalankan oleh rezim SBY-Kalla ini bukan ORBA jilid dua?
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/28/business/LA_FIN_Bolivia_Nationalization.php Bolivia signs nationalization contract with France's Total SA The Associated Press Published: October 27, 2006 LA PAZ, Bolivia The nationalization of Bolivia's petroleum industry took a long-awaited step forward late Friday as French company Total SA was set to ink a new deal with the government. President Evo Morales joined officials from Total, one of the largest foreign operators in Bolivia, and from the U.S.-based Vintage for a signing ceremony in the capital La Paz on the eve of an Oct. 28 deadline for international companies to negotiate new Bolivian contracts. Under the terms of Morales' May 1 nationalization decree, foreign companies had six months to sign new deals ceding majority control of their Bolivian operations or leave the country. Meanwhile, last-minute talks continued Friday night with Brazilian state energy giant Petrobras, Bolivia's largest natural gas producer, as well as the Spanish-Argentine firm Repsol YPF and British Gas. Exact terms of the contracts signed Friday were not immediately available, but Juan Carlos Ortiz, president of state energy company Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales Bolivianos, said they would bring Bolivia US$120 million (?95 million) in annual gas revenues. Friday's signing ceremony took place in the same hall where 10 years ago former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada issued a series of decrees in a sweeping privatization of Bolivia's petroleum, telecommunications and electricity sectors, as well the national railroad and airline. Sanchez de Lozada fled Bolivia during violent 2003 protests against his economic policies and now lives in U.S. exile. The signing took place in front immense portrait of Morales superimposed over a photo of gas refinery bearing the slogan "Nationalization: Not one step back." In the upper balcony of the hall, Morales' supporters hung hand-painted banners featuring the face of the Latin American revolutionary Che Guevera. Lawmakers from Morales' own Movement Toward Socialism party, or MAS, have proposed pushing back the deadline to allow negotiations to continue without pressure. Hours before Friday's ceremony, MAS senator Antonio Peredo said that while talks with Petrobras "have advanced sufficiently," the two sides might seek an agreement to give the talks a few more days, "if there is the disposition to do so." Bolivia's conservative opposition, meanwhile, has pressed Morales to honor the deadline. The nationalization process had run into a number of setbacks since Morales rattled foreign companies with his surprise decree, including the resignation of key energy officials and a reorganization of Bolivia's state petroleum company, known as YPFB. Left emaciated by Sanchez de Lozada's 1996 privatization, YPFB has for the last decade been only a minor operator in its own country. The state company's lack of equipment and capital has slowed its efforts to take control of Bolivia's natural gas reserves, South America's largest after Venezuela's. Uncertainty over the results of the Brazilian presidential election, set for a runoff on Sunday, Oct. 29, have complicated negotiations with Petrobras, by far the biggest player in Bolivia's oil and gas industry. Incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been criticized at home for Brazil's dependence on Bolivian gas and what some see as a soft defense of his country's Bolivian interests. Morales, a Silva ally, has been reluctant to commit Petrobras to new terms before a final vote. Earlier this week Marco Aurelio Garcia, one of Silva's top advisers, said that should the two countries fail to agree on a new deal, "Petrobras will leave Bolivia, it's very simple." Meanwhile, Bolivia since May 1 has sought to raise the price it charges Brazil for gas, but months of talks have yet to produce a deal. The next round of price negotiations are set for Nov. 6-10 in Rio de Janeiro. Morales' government has also recently announced plans to bring the Bolivia's mines under state control. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
