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I had an oil exploration crew working out of a small town on the Bene (sp) river, it was at the end of a paved road a long way from Coach.
The crew had about 3,000 people ( about 50 were ex pats ) with 6 helicopters.
The Bolivian Navy (yes this landlocked nation has a navy )
had about 50 people with only a few dugouts with small outboards.
The Navy lieutenant, who was a dope head, had beaten up a few of the Bolivian natives who worked for us when he was doped up.
They had a fiesta and all of our people and the town turned out for the celebration.
Well even though I was on full expenses, I could not buy a drink for myself or anyone and I could not drink all of the ones bought for me.
One of my workers was from Canada and we left the celebration.
Well this doped up lieutenant called out his entire force to put me and the Canadian in jail.
It could have gotten ugly as we had many people on the crew who did not want us put in jail.
The jail was a storage area for 55 gal. drums between thatched huts.
I started laughing at the jail and the Canadian was scared to death, he said "Frank, Frank quit laughing, they are going to shoot us".
The dope head passed out and his Sergeant let us out.
The crew had already called his higher officers and complained about his treatment of our Bolivian workers and this was the last straw, they shipped him out and the Sergeant was put in control of this little town.
We never had any problems after that.