Thursday, May 18, 2006

AND STRIKES YET AGAIN:
After expropriating and nationalizing property belonging to Spanish energy giant Repsol-YPF and sending an ultimatum to Spanish bank BBVA demanding that it turn over the shares in Bolivian pension funds that it manages, Bolivian president Evo Morales announced yesterday that he would revise the Sabsa corporation's contract to manage three Bolivian airports. Sabsa is owned by the Spanish companies Aena and Abertis. Foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and PSOE spokesman Diego Lopez Garrido continued to stress the "good relations" between Spain and Bolivia.

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