Natural gas bonanza divides Bolivia

Bolivia’s history has been shaped in large part by its geography of jungles and high mountains, and in modern times by cocaine. But its future may depend on what lies beneath.

A vast bonanza of natural gas has plunged the nation into a political battle that is exposing its fundamental fault lines – rich and poor, Indian and European, socialist and capitalist, plus old nationalist and anti-“gringo” instincts.