LatinNews Daily Briefing - 28 July 2011

Bolivia: On 24 July, while addressing a convention of female members of the Seis Federaciones del Trópico de Cochabamba (the umbrella organisation for Chapare coca producers) President Evo Morales expressed his fear that the US may plant something on his plane, during his 27 July trip to New York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting, in order to accuse him of involvement in drug trafficking. Morales feared that “they are preparing something to discredit us with drug trafficking.” The US Embassy in La Paz made no remarks on Morales’s comments. National Deputy Edwin Tupa, a supporter of Morales, claimed that “[the US] have always tried to harass the president, since he was a lawmaker they wanted to connect him with drug trafficking”. Relations between the two nations have been shaky since each nation ejected each other’s ambassadors in 2008.

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