1000's March Demanding Nationalization of Bolivia's Oil Industry, New Pres

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBH80VYY9E.html

Thousands March Demanding Nationalization of Bolivia's Oil Industry, New President Names 'unity' Cabinet

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - New President Eduardo Rodriguez named his Cabinet at a ceremony in which he also renewed a pledge for early elections to satisfy demonstrators who recently crippled the country with a series of violent protests.

Hours earlier, some 7,000 Indians, labor activists and peasant farmers marched peacefully in renewed pressure for early elections and the nationalization of the oil industry.

In the brief ceremony late Tuesday at the Government Palace, Rodriguez made clear his would be a brief caretaker presidency, swearing in a dozen ministers to what was characterized as a national unity cabinet.

He named a new army commander-in-chief, Gen. Marcelo Antezana, and a foreign minister with a long diplomatic trajectory, Armando Loayza.

[Tempest]

1. Do U.S. companies currently control Bolivia's oil industry?

Who's going to lose out?

[NNN0LHI]

2. I think French, Spanish, and American mainly n/t

[applegrove]

3. This whole neocon thing is going very well - eh? n/t

[daleo]

4. The oil companies' enforcer army is kind of tied up in Iraq right now.

The Bolivian population might just have a chance to get its wish.

[julianer]

5. Great events indeed!

Here's a fantastic site with Authentic Journalists on the ground giving reports from the people's perspective:

http://www.narconews.com/

Presently the situation seems to be that the masses are allowing Rodriguez some time to arrange elections, but at the same time are setting up their own popular assemblies to take power if the latest constitutional route proves to be fruitless.