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.
I think there are answers --- getting later and later but I think there still are.
Funding Freedom
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/books/2000/0004.neier.html President Reagan told the British that Salvadorans "braved ambush and gunfire, trudging miles to vote for freedom." Equating human rights with elections, Reagan committed the United States to a global effort to promote democracy. "What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term," the President said, "the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history."