“An open wound that must be healed" was how President Evo Morales dubbed Bolivia's loss of its access to the Pacific on 23 March, Bolivia's annual “Sea Day" commemorating its defeat by Chile in the 1879-1883 Pacific War. That Morales is intent on healing this wound was backed up with his unprecedented announcement of plans to take Chile before international courts to fight Bolivia's cause. The threat marks a major shift in diplomatic relations which, while severed in 1978, had improved under Morales.
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