Reply #11: Opposition demonstrators cut natural gas supply line in Bolivia (AFP)

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LA PAZ (AFP) — Demonstrators clashing with socialist President Evo Morales' government on Wednesday cut off Bolivia's natural gas supply to Argentina, a Chaco company executive told AFP.

"We have had to stop operations at Vuelta Grande" a natural gas plant in Chuquisaca department, which also supplies Brazil in part, Chaco's institutional relations manager Juan Callau said.

Vuelta Grande produces 83 million cubic feet (2.3 million cubic meters) a day which is exported to Argentina (1-1.5 cubic meters) and in varying volumes to Brazil, which consumes a total 31 million cubic meters.

Morales last week charged that rebel governors in the east were mounting a "civil coup" against the government after two weeks of road blocks and other anti-government protests in the relatively prosperous states of Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Tarija have begun to affect the local economies there ...

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