Where is the outrage? Hollywood? Elite Academia? George Clooney? (sound of crickets)
President Evo Morales of Bolivia has ordered the military to seize 56 foreign-owned oil and gas fields in a nationalisation move that hit shares of companies operating in the Latin American country today. - The leftwing President, who came to power on a platform of re-nationalisation, warned of similar action in other sectors. "We are beginning by nationalising oil and gas. Tomorrow we will add mining, forestry and all natural resources – what our ancestors fought for," he said in a May Day speech at the San Alberto gas field in southern Bolivia
Oh, I get it. When a government send troops in to actually take the gas fields away from the people who drilled and developed them, its ok as long the people getting screwed are the oil companies. I wonder what would happen if the oil companies had an army in Bolivia?
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