Bolivia storms Argentina over Margarita Fields.

Bolivia retakes natural gas pipeline

YACUIBA, Bolivia - The military retook control of a natural gas pipeline to Argentina after days of violent protests at gas installations in southern Bolivia, the government said late Friday.
ADVERTISEMENT

More than 1,000 protesters seized the Yacuiba pipeline station run by Transredes, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. Protesters broke windows, set fire to two company cars, and threatened to shut off gas deliveries to Argentina.

The protest never shut off the flow, but the government had said Friday that it was preparing to temporarily reduce its natural gas exports to Argentina by about 75 percent and slightly decrease shipments to Brazil due to the protests, at an estimated loss of $1 million a day.

O.K., first thing---tell this person that Argentina and Bolivia are two different countries. They blew it, from the start. Anyways, the key interesting part I like is where they stormed in with Margaritas, or something like that...

Neighboring provinces within Bolivia's gas-rich southern state of Tarija dispute ownership of the Margarita field, still in its exploration and development stage but potentially one of the country's largest. Each is demanding a larger share of the field's eventual royaltie

Drinks all around, they've got the largest field in the area, and they're supposed to be worried about US cutting them back.

A little much, in the nose, right between the eyes...



[edit on 4/22/2007 by bothered]

[edit on 4/22/2007 by bothered]

[edit on 4/22/2007 by bothered]