The Bolivian government will nationalize all gas stations within 50km (31 miles) of their border. The move is part of the new Law on Development and Security.
About 30 gas stations are within the 50km nationalization zone.
Bolivia is surrounded by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
The government said they are in the process of negotiating a purchase price for the gas stations.
“I want them to answer for my son, please, we’re a humble family, I need my son alive, I want justice, how can they just murder my innocent son?”-victim’s father
Bolivian anti-drug police shot and killed a 13 year old boy, and wounded five others, including the boy’s brother.
The father of the killed boy said he sons were going on a fishing trip with relatives.
Witnesses say the police drove along side the victim’s vehicle and started shooting with M16s. No warning was given, and no attempt to pull them over was made. At least 27 rounds were fired into the vehicle.
Angry residents protested by blocking off the highway where the shooting took place.
Police say they thought the family were drug dealers. The Official Bolivian government statement is that the police claimed the family shot at them first. Typical.