[Marxism] FW: Energy company chiefs flee Bolivian courts (Financial Times)

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Re: the below nonsense about "judicial independence":
what kind of shit is this?
The suit filed in Bolivia is just normal bourgeois
constitutional process -- the nation, as it were,
protecting itself from thieves. By the same token, the
U.S. Justice Department -- an arm of the Executive
Branch -- and its various prosecutors does exactly
what the Bolivian prosecutors did. The government in
both countries finds out it's been fucked -- as for
instance the oil companies did here by cheating the
Feds out of billions in royalties -- it files suit,
and the judiciary takes it up. (The difference of
course is that the US government is -- not yet --
under the kind of mass pressure that the Bolivian
government is to see such suits through to the end.
And I won't exclude the possibility that here, as with
today's announced land seizures, that Evo is welcoming
the mass pressure. I still believe Gerry Foley is
right, but maybe Evo was hiding his real politics.)

Notice, by the way, that the scumbag complaining about
"judicial independence" is a former hydrocarbons
minister now working for the energy vultures.

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The government says it cannot interfere in judicial
matters, but
many in the sector are sceptical of that stance, since
senior
ministers were among those who originally made the
accusations
against Repsol.

"Officially the judiciary is completely independent
from the
government, but that isn't really so," said Carlos
Alberto López a
former hydrocarbons minister who is now a spokesman
for the
industry. "The public sector wants to please the new
administration, and the best way to do so is to attack
oil
companies."


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