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The Consequences of Democracy

Bolivian President Evo Morales seized control of the country’s natural gas industry Monday, sending soldiers to occupy fields that he contends private companies have plundered for years. Morales said that unless foreign energy firms agreed to give Bolivia’s state oil company oversight of production and a majority of their revenue generated in Bolivia, the government […]

Bolivian President Evo Morales seized control of the country’s natural gas industry Monday, sending soldiers to occupy fields that he contends private companies have plundered for years.

Morales said that unless foreign energy firms agreed to give Bolivia’s state oil company oversight of production and a majority of their revenue generated in Bolivia, the government would evict them from the fields.

“The time has come, the awaited day, a historic day in which Bolivia retakes absolute control of our natural resources,” Morales said during a televised speech from a gas field near the country’s southern border. “The looting by foreign companies has ended.” ~The Washington Post

In a landmark victory for Mr. Bush’s policy of bringing democracy to the entire world, Evo Morales has led the Bolivian people to reclaim their stolen property from the oppressor…oh, wait, what’s that? You mean to say that Mr. Bush doesn’t like Evo Morales’ populist nationalism and Bush supporters don’t welcome mass expropriation of industrialists at gunpoint? But surely, it’s all very democratic, so that means it must be peaceful and good, just as Mr. Bush has told us all democracies are. Why Bolivia must be a free country–they must yearn for freedom! How do we know? They just had an election, of course.

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