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Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2006 (ISSN 1741-4431)
CHILE: Friendlier relations with Peru and Bolivia
With the election this year of three new presidents in the south-western corner of Latin American, relations in the region appear to be warming. Chile, traditionally at odds with both Bolivia and Peru, appears to be adopting a new policy of good neighbourliness. The immediate fruits of this rapprochement look set to be a free trade agreement with Peru and associate membership of the Andean Community (CAN), a regional organisation from which it withdrew in 1976.
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