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To: EsclavoDeCristo
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2122966

Houston Chronicle Foreign Service

Nearly three quarters of the country's 8 million people survive on less than $2 a day.

The project's opponents say Bolivia would receive just 70 cents for each thousand square feet of gas exported, less than half the amount earned from current gas exports to Brazil.
10 posted on 10/12/2003 3:49:42 PM PDT by Truth666
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To: Truth666
Same source, Sept. 23 :

"the protest committee and the labor federation called for Sanchez de Lozada, a champion of the pipeline whose approval rate hovers below 10 percent in a recent poll, to resign. "

I wonder how high is the approval rate now.
12 posted on 10/12/2003 4:08:45 PM PDT by Truth666
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