The Bolivian situation makes Argentina nervous

and well it should... the buenos aires herald editorializes in yesterday's edition...

Supreme Court Chief Justice Eduardo Rodríguez duly became Bolivia’s 5th president in the last four years on Thursday, promising to hold elections in the course of this year.

As the home of Latin America’s second-largest gas reserves, Bolivia necessarily matters to all its neighbours — not least Argentina, which annually imports twice Bolivia’s entire domestic gas consumption (Brazil imports seven times). With winter starting next week, both the supply and the price of that gas is obviously important. But Bolivia’s instability not only raises the danger of minimized gas production but also human overspill into Argentina — a presence which is already firmly established with up to a million Bolivians living here.

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