Bolivia–Brazil Gas Crisis: Six Diplomatic Cables from 2006

Housing six diplomatic cables used to analyze the 2006 Bolivia–Brazil gas crisis, compiled by Manoel Galdino for a game-theoretic study. It features three documents from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and three from the U.S. Department of State.

Use Cases

• Textual analysis of diplomatic communication strategies within the provided cable texts
• Replication of the supermodular game-theoretic model presented in the associated article
• Comparative analysis of Brazilian and U.S. diplomatic perspectives on the 2006 gas crisis

Strengths

• Contains primary sources obtained via Brazil's Access to Information Law (Law 12.527/2011)
• Provides multi-perspective diplomatic data from both Brazilian and U.S. sources
• Directly supports replication of game-theoretic political science research

Limitations

• Extremely small sample size of six documents
• Geographic scope is limited to the specific actors involved in the 2006 gas crisis
• Lack of structured metadata fields

Provenance

Source

Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S. Department of State

Collection Method

Legal information request and retrieval from public leak archives

Time Range

2006

Geography

Brazil, Bolivia, and the United States