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The nationalization of Bolivia's oil and gas industry has had mixed results since its announcement in May 2006. While the government on the one hand seeks the resurrection of state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) into the dominant and vertically integrated company it once was, on the other it does not have the finances to do so. This BNamericas report looks at what Bolivia intended at the moment of nationalization, what the government has done since then, and how these actions could affect Bolivian energy's domestic and export markets.