42 - Bolivia Infuriates AND Petrifies The Right By Nationalizing Its Natural Gas Industry / A Listener's Rant About Right-Wingers

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4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2006

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Fulfilling a campaign promise, Bolivian President Evo Morales recently nationalized his country's natural gas industry. Right-wingers are beside themselves -- their profits in Bolivia won't be obscenely large anymore, but far worse, this could give ideas to other exploited nations. It's precisely this type of action by Third World leaders that is more terrifying to the right than any WMD. It

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 42 of Blast the Right.
0:24.9	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:28.6	Today the main segment will be about a courageous and necessary move by Bolivia to free itself
0:39.6	from multinational exploitation.
0:42.8	It's an example to the rest of the third world that the right fears.
0:47.9	I'll also share with you a wonderfully worded, rant-and-rave Blast the Right email from
0:53.4	a listener.
0:54.4	Oh, let's get right into it.
0:58.1	I've done a couple of podcasts about the wave of progressive governments being elected
1:03.0	to power in Latin America and how the US does everything it can to either stop the progressive
1:10.0	candidates from winning the elections or if that fails then to demonize and sabotage
1:16.9	and, if possible, illegally oust the progressive leader.
1:22.8	The countries I've spoken about have primarily been Haiti, Bolivia and Venezuela.
1:30.0	Today we're going to talk about a momentous development this month in Bolivia.
1:36.6	The progressive candidate, Abo Morales, had been elected by a landslide on a platform
1:43.2	of nationalizing his nation's natural gas industry.
1:47.7	Well, unlike certain leaders we have, do I really need to name them?
1:55.2	Bolivia's president actually did what he promised to do.
1:59.6	On May 1st, he nationalized Bolivia's natural gas industry.
2:06.7	My sources for this segment are several New York Times articles, pieces in the British
2:13.3	newspapers, The Guardian and the Telegraph, an article from UpsideDownWorld.org, the CIA
2:21.2	Factbook and several AP stories published on the ultra right wing website, newsmax.com.
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