Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Bolivia

According to Oil & Gas Journal, opposition to plans to export Liquified Natural Gas threaten to topple the government of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The Miami Herald reports that Bolivians are angry that the exports will go through Chile, "the country's hated southern neighbor." Here's more from the Associated Press. And here's El Diario (note: this is not a persistent link to the story, just to the paper's site), which reports that Bolivians believe that when the president has an approval rating of 9%, the people should be able to remove him from office: "Eso fue lo que los republicanos demandaron del ex gobernador de California. . ."