Talk:Carlos Mesa

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I have added an NPOV notice because of some of the language used in this article. Terms such as, meager, ethnic Spanish-European élite minority, and plundered, do not denote a neutral point of view.

--Mb1000 01:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I removed meager because it is largely untrue — royalites in a standard U.S. contract between the producing company and the owner of mineral rights in a private setting (fee simple or mineral deed holder) calls for a 12.5% royalty. It is my understanding that this is pretty much standard generally. "Meager" is in the eye of the beholder, and in this case, probably not literaly true, although admittedly the Bolivian masses could be expected to care very little about how things are done elsewhere. We should also keep in mind that the proper term for the development of natual resources, partcularly hydrocarbon reserves, is exploitation, which sounds completely POV as well, even when it is not, in this context. Somehow I contemplate that what will happen now will eventually be attempts to exploit the gas by a governmental corporation which will result in less overall revenue than the 18% royalty from private businesses would have, unless there are some really great and really patriotic Bolivian petroleum engineers, a topic of which I have no knowledge. Rlquall 10:43, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Not necessarily. A state-owned corporation would still exploit the gas in cooperation with foreign enterprises. This is the way it is done in many countries in the ME and Venezuela. The important thing is that the state enterprise can demand better terms. -- Viajero | Talk 11:53, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

There has been quite a bit of vandalism on this page. Maybe it should be semi-protected. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DanielBeaver (talk • contribs) 05:34, 24 January 2007 (UTC).