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Weekly Report - 29 August 2013 (WR-13-34)

Brazil’s foreign policy failings exposed

“I was in the DOI-Cedi [junta-era detention centre], I know what it is and I can assure you all that the DOI-Cedi is as distant from the Brazilian embassy in La Paz as heaven from hell, literally”, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff told journalists looking for her response to the news that the commercial attaché (chargé d’affaires) at the Brazilian embassy in La Paz, Eduardo Saboia, the most senior ranking official in La Paz in the current absence of an ambassador there, had taken it upon himself, without the knowledge or permission of Brazil’s foreign ministry (Itamaraty), to smuggle to Brazil, in a dramatic cross-country dash, a Bolivian opposition politician holed up as a refugee for 14 months inside the embassy on humanitarian grounds.

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