Private Party

In the mid-1990s Bolivia's gas industry was privatized, and Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) was stripped of its operational capabilities. In the mid-2000s Bolivia's gas industry is being publicized, and despite all the flutter in the first-world press, its just contracts, margins, and re-operationalizing the YPFB. No more glamorous than shifting bus driver pensions back from private management to public, and the buses too. Some changes of terms, some changes of margins. Nothing to start wars and coups over, unless that is the actual purpose of wars and coups.

Democrats should start talking with Morales, and Chavez, and Lula. Handing Abramoff and CREA's clients the terms and margins for coal, oil, and gas royalties is not the only policy choice possible, unless the Democratic Party is also the Party of Privatization and Efficiency and ... whatever else grand theft auto can be spun as.
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