Only one of the myriad messes vomited into Obamaa's lap, as we go merrily along;
http://www.ucip.ch/nv/bo.htm"Currently, the Bolivian population is suffering from the unfortunate consequences of privatisation policies:
1. We are no more the owners of our energy resources
Bolivia lost property rights over gas and petroleum, including calculated reserves worth more than $100,000 million. We have only received "investment promises" in exchange for the following prices: US$29 for a barrel of petroleum and US$1.25 for every thousand cubic feet of gas.
With the new legal framework regarding of hydrocarbons, we Bolivians will lose another $100,000 million in the coming years and already have lost ownership of our resources and have returned to the position of a tributary for multi-national corporate oil wealth.
2. We pay international prices for our own hydrocarbons
Before 1996, prices were calculated according to the cost of national production. Now we buy from multi-nationals to support our own consumption. Our gas and petroleum is now priced at the high oil rates in the United States, as if we as a nation were importing hydrocarbons. While the cost of production (including internal transport) per barrel of petroleum does not exceed $7, currently the Bolivian State allows the oil producers a price of $29 per barrel of petroleum."
"Under the current Hydrocarbon Law, multinational earnings in this gigantic project will produce approximately $1000 million every year, whereas, according to Edward Miller, president of British Gas in Bolivia, the income for Bolivia from this project will not exceed $50 million per year."
And, as we know, you have to have the media methods to put those third world folks in their place ...
"The World Bank gave the government a loan of US$9 million in order to carry out "400 short courses" and to push public campaigns about the "goodness of the project" through the mass media."
Note that this was a
loan from the WB, for a venture to serve purposes totally contrary to the interests of the recipeients of the loan.
So gangster of them.
Well, that's just good ol'e Euro-American capitalism, that particular form of "democracy" that we so like to impose upon others, with all due profit margin. And your objection is? ...
So then ...
Then those Bolivians elected some guy named Mesa, and what happened then was ...
http://www.narconews.com/Issue33/article957.htmlOh man, this get's even worse, taking into consideration the wishes of the constituents and all. Actions taken that could possibly benefit the citizenry, however slightly above the multi-nationals.
But, it gets even worse.
Them damn Bolivians voted for some commie-terrorist-faggot-whatever that had the gumption to hold the interests of his fellow citizens above that of euro-american energy interests, and the unmittigated gaul to do what he was democratically elected to do, i.e. raise the country from abject poverty to some semblance of respectability unto themselves, forget what the rest of the world thinks.
So Mesa got elected, and it went from the IMF to the CIA.
But then Morales gets elected, so now we have to move to the "big guns", the DEA.
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2008/11/20/bolivia-demands- extradition-for-massacre/
Which results in;
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE4AQ7HA200 81127
Columbia is, by a large margin, the heavy exporter of cocaine to this country, but they buy lots of our guns, and let our corporations have their way with them.
Bolivia's exports of cocaine held steady or dwindled, while that of Colombia and Peru increased, but the US administration booted Bolivia from the tarrif agreement. Because they (Bolivia) kicked out insurgent and/or coup supporters (DEA).
"Democracy" holds sway here, insofar as it supports the ultimate agenda, Euro-American corporate interests.
Otherwise, look out for the DEA.
Your tax dollars at work.
