Protesters occupy oil camps

[Robbien]

From correspondents in La Paz, Bolivia
09jun05

INDIGENOUS protesters demanding the nationalisation of the gas and oil industry took over seven oil fields belonging to British Petroleum and Spain's 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 some 900 kilometres 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.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15557598%255E23109,00.html

[phantom power]

1. the nerve of those uppity natives,

demanding to own their own resources.

[expatriot]

2. Multi-national corporations don't tolerate this very well.....

There is going to be some ass-cracking in Bolivia soon....

[izzie]

3. Can we put up with people doing that?

I am sure Bush will not. I think he sees things only on his way and that oil should be owned by a nice big corp. Right??

[newscott]

4. I, too, expect these folks will get cracked down on

and hard.

Probably on a Friday. Preferrably before a holiday or when some other news is breaking.

[Robbien]

5. If it happens it will have to be done with private mercs

the Bolivian military has publically said it will not act against the protesters. They will only be there to insure safety of all involved but will not go against their own people.

Exxon is probably suiting up their mercs as we type, and all the while cursing that they have to pay out of their own pockets to have it done.

[Barrett808]

6. Didn't I just read that Paraguay is allowing US troops to base there?

That would be a good staging area for some freedomizing regime change in Bolivia.

[ecoalex]

7. U.S. Troops deployed to Bolivia

Yes they went last Friday.

The Oil Beckons our blood.

[cornfedyank]

13. great picture...STTP

speak truth to power

[Renew Deal]

8. This reminds me of Oil Storm.

Where's Hurricane Julie?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Don't those ignorant brown people know that that oil belongs to rich

white Americans? </sarcasm>

[LightningFlash]

10. Here comes EXXON Mobil....

They're preparing to wage a war civil war style in Bolivia

[wildcat78]

11. As well does Halliburton...

http://www.sheeple.net/Cheney.htm

Do a search for Bolivia and you will find some very interesting things, like an oil pipeline Halliburton built from Bolivia into Brazil.

[cornfedyank]

12. highway robbery... you got what we want.. give it to us..shut up

it is a depressing pattern, repeated and repeated ad nausea.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15557598%255E23109,00.html

In May Bolivia's Congress passed a law increasing state royalties and taxes on oil and gas companies' revenues from 18 per cent to 32 per cent.

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Twenty-six foreign oil and gas companies - including British Petroleum, Exxon-Mobil of the United States, Total of France, Repsol of Spain, Petrobras of Brazil and Pluspetrol of Argentina - have 70 licences to operate in Bolivia. Some are believed to be considering legal action over the new law.