The Narco News Bulletin: Argentina's President Calls for Boycott of Shell over price rise: “Members of the unemployed movement picketed outside Shell headquarters in Buenos Aires…” (ShellNews.net) 13 March 05

By Benjamin Melancon,

Members of the unemployed movement picketed outside Shell headquarters in Buenos Aires to protest increased gasoline and diesel prices, and Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner spoke strongly in support of a citizen's boycott of Royal Dutch Shell.

"Argentines don't have to buy anything from Shell.  Let's unite and not buy a single thing from them, not even a can of oil, so they realise that we will not put up with this kind of thing anymore," Kirchner said Thursday, March 10, reported by Inter Press Service / Global Information Network.

Luis D'Elía, with the Land and Housing Federation, said Shell "wants to sabotage Argentina's recovery from the crisis," while Kirchner accused the corporation of not collaborating with the Argentine economic recovery, unlike the other oil giants, Spanish YPF-Repsol and Brazil's state-owned Petrobrás, which have not raised prices.

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