LatinNews Daily Report - 23 October 2014

Bolivia: On 14 October the US Embassy in Bolivia said it hoped to establish a bilateral relationship based on “mutual respect” with the new government led by President Evo Morales, who was re-elected for a new five-year term in the 12 October general elections. In a press release, the US chargé d’affaires in La Paz, Peter Brennan, congratulated “the Bolivian people on a peaceful election”, and expressed hopes to  “establish a mutually beneficial bilateral relationship based in mutual respect” with the Bolivian government. Diplomatic relations were severed in in 2008, following allegations of spying against the-then US envoy to La Paz, Philip Goldberg, an incident which resulted in the expulsion of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from Bolivia and the withdrawal of the respective ambassadors. On election day Bolivia’s Vice-President Álvaro García Linera said that the Bolivian government was ready to re-establish relations with the US if Washington promises to “respect” Bolivia’s sovereignty without “intervening” in its domestic affairs.

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