标题:Protests could cut Bolivian gas exports, opposition warns 2 days ago LA PAZ (AFP) — Bolivia's opposition governors turned up the heat on President Evo Morales Wednesday, threatening that stepped-up protests against his socialist government could cut off exports of natural gas, the country's main economic asset, to Argentina and Brazil. Authorities in Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Chuquisaca, meeting since Tuesday in Santa Cruz, released a statement seeking greater regional autonomy and rejecting the new constitution proposed by Morales. "If the government persists on its course, we will not be held responsible for the outcome of any act that might block the exporting of fuel" to Argentina and Brazil, they warned in a statement. Protesters will mount road blocks in all five departments similar to one already in place along the border with Argentina and Paraguay that has completely cut of vehicular access to the two countries, they added. The government said the protestors' threats would fuel separatism and racism. Their "insisting on implementing illegal autonomy statutes only will take us toward separatism and racism being expressed more virulently in some provinces," Interior Minister Alfredo Rada told a news conference. Bolivia's National Electoral Court Tuesday invalidated a decree by Morales calling a referendum on December 7 on the rewritten constitution being sharply contested by opposition governors. The schism that has opened up has laid bare tensions between mostly poor indigenous Bolivians who make up 60 percent of the 10-million-strong population and the non-indigenous minority who control the economies of the relatively prosperous eastern lowlands of the poorest country in South America. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jn8M8QMEIfU7kJhvuqe7KNMwwGiQ 新闻来源: (需有正确连结) -- --

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