Weekly Report - 11 October 2012 (WR-12-40)

“A sovereign right”. This is how President Evo Morales is describing the proposal to build a fish farm in the Potosí region that would use the waters of the Silala river, which rises in Bolivia but is used as a water resource in Chile. Morales’ insistence that the project does not represent an “aggression or provocation” to Chile has yet to convince the administration of President Sebastián Piñera. The issue is threatening to become the latest source of strain in bilateral relations which have steadily worsened since Bolivia’s announcement last year that it was planning to take its historic claim against Chile in relation to the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), when it lost its Pacific coast, before international courts.

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