Weekly Report - 15 June 2017 (WR-17-23)

Diplomatic tensions between Bolivia and Chile are mounting. On 14 June Bolivia’s Foreign Minister Fernando Huanacuni accused the Chilean government led by President Michelle Bachelet before the permanent council of the Organization of American States (OAS) of torturing nine Bolivians – two military personnel and seven customs officials – arrested in Chile in March and since held in preventive detention in the northern city of Iquique. Bachelet said she would pay “no attention to these new lies”, while Huanacuni’s Chilean peer Heraldo Muñoz accused Bolivia of another “failed act of propaganda”.

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