Latinnews Daily - 29 June 2004

Development: Bolivia's President Carlos Mesa's decision to raise the topic of his country's desire for access to the Pacific has been greeted with a mixture of hostility and indifference in Santiago. Mesa's speech, at the inauguration of the first inter-parliamentary meeting of the countries of Mercosur and the Andean Community, in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz on 28 June, has yet to merit an official response, but one Chilean senator called on his government to suspend dialogue with the 'politically weak' Bolivian president.