標題:Protests could cut Bolivian gas exports, opposition warns
2 days ago
LA PAZ (AFP) — Bolivia's opposition governors turned up the heat on
President Evo Morales Wednesday, threatening that stepped-up protests against
his socialist government could cut off exports of natural gas, the country's
main economic asset, to Argentina and Brazil.
Authorities in Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Chuquisaca, meeting since
Tuesday in Santa Cruz, released a statement seeking greater regional autonomy
and rejecting the new constitution proposed by Morales.
"If the government persists on its course, we will not be held responsible
for the outcome of any act that might block the exporting of fuel" to
Argentina and Brazil, they warned in a statement.
Protesters will mount road blocks in all five departments similar to one
already in place along the border with Argentina and Paraguay that has
completely cut of vehicular access to the two countries, they added.
The government said the protestors' threats would fuel separatism and racism.
Their "insisting on implementing illegal autonomy statutes only will take us
toward separatism and racism being expressed more virulently in some
provinces," Interior Minister Alfredo Rada told a news conference.
Bolivia's National Electoral Court Tuesday invalidated a decree by Morales
calling a referendum on December 7 on the rewritten constitution being
sharply contested by opposition governors.
The schism that has opened up has laid bare tensions between mostly poor
indigenous Bolivians who make up 60 percent of the 10-million-strong
population and the non-indigenous minority who control the economies of the
relatively prosperous eastern lowlands of the poorest country in South
America.
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