Significance: Although Muñoz stressed how much Chile and Peru now have in common, which should help resolve the current tension, the governments in both countries could benefit from the political unity engendered by a diplomatic spat and any accompanying surge in nationalist sentiment. The latest spying allegations benefit President Humala given the turbulent state of Peru’s domestic politics. As Humala’s approval rating hits a fresh low, it is worth recalling that the zenith of his popularity followed his government’s success against Chile in a maritime dispute before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in January 2014. Meanwhile, a survey released yesterday by pollsters Cadem showed that Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet’s approval rating had plummeted 18 percentage points over the course of the past year to a low of 34%, as the scandal surrounding her son Sebastián Dávalos and his wife, accused of influence peddling and the use of privileged information, bites.
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