[Teacher317]

Why are the protestors against the export of natural gas?

I had that same question

[wardaddy]

The Indians and their Euro-elitist-academia-inelligentsia-Che-wannabe leaders say that gas exports through the new proposed pipeline would produce revenues unlikely to reach the average Boliviano.....not a stretch admittedly.

They are also against building a pipeline thru either Peru or Chile both historical foes...Chile in particular.

The more Gaia-worshipping radical elements also claim some indig fascination with touting coca as Bolivia's true export as being more in tune with "native tradition" and more "eco-friendly"...lol...Bolivia's coca money ends up primarily in the hands of Colombian drug lords...a point they apparently overlook in Bolivian political theory circles.

Typical marxist indigenous masses versus oligarchs Latin American fare.

I see no answers here....aside from a benevolent dictator.