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.
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10/12/2003 3:49:42 PM PDT by
Truth666
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.
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10/12/2003 4:08:45 PM PDT by
Truth666
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