1:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Bolivia|Politics · 1 Comment
21 Aug 2006
The Dow Jones — in a strangely translated and not very PC press release — announced today that a group of GuaranÃs have seized a gas pipeline in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, which provides gas to nearby Brazil:
Between about 20 to 30 Indians were still occupying the site Monday, while up to 150 people were staging protests outside the premises, the official told Dow Jones Newswires, speaking over the telephone from Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
The occupied control station is located in Parapet in Santa Cruz state and serves to compress gas to transport it to Brazil. Brazil currently imports about 25 million cubic meters of gas a day from Bolivia.
Indian leaders have threatened to close valves in the control station to stop the gas exports, but so far the gas flow is uninterrupted, the Petrobras official said.
The protesters are demanding 9 million dollars they say were promised them by Brazilian oil companies in 2005.
Via / Easy Bourse
Image via bolivia.indymedia.org
7:58 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Entertainment|Marketing|Music · 2 Comments
29 Sep 2005
Via HispanicTips: is this for real? I guess he’s riding the fame of Daddy Yankee’s Gasolina.
Bimbo, already a huge star in his native Puerto Rico, is instigating the greatest gas giveaway in American history! The novel new campaign is fueled by Bimbo’s smash hit single, “Fill Up My Gas Tank” (“Fuleteame El Tanque”) — currently #2 on R&R’s Latin Club Charts — and its controversial music video: a biting satire in which George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, Condoleezza Rice and Osama bin Laden are portrayed as greedy strippers, collectively responsible for raising the price of gas.
…At each gas station giveaway, Bimbo gives a blistering performance of his newest hit, while his Freedom Girls are on hand pumping the gas. Bimbo has already helped struggling motorists by giving away thousands of dollars in free gasoline, at gas station events in Lower Manhattan, Washington, D.C. and in the heart of the Bronx…
I wonder who’s idea this was…Oh, it was these people. If nothing else, a timely marketing ploy!
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