LatinNews Daily Report - 30 September 2013

POLITICS | A new source of Bolivia-Chile tensions. On 27 September Bolivia’s foreign ministry sent a letter of protest to Chile complaining about the “excessive control exercised by the Chilean authorities on its border”, with some 500 Bolivian trucks stuck on the Tambo Quemado-Chungará road connecting the two countries for the past week. Bilateral relations are already strained over Bolivia’s 2012 decision to take Chile to the International Court of Justice at The Hague (ICJ) over its lost access to the Pacific Ocean in the 1879-1884 War of the Pacific. According to Bolivia’s foreign ministry, the stoppages violate a provision of the 1904 peace and friendship treaty, which ended the war, and guarantees free bilateral transit between the two countries. On 29 September, the president of Bolivia’s national customs authority (ANB), Marlene Ardaya, told reporters that the Chilean authorities would consider the issue today (30 September).

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