Weekly Report - 25 November 2003
CHILE: After Chávez, Lula on Bolivian claim
Chilean overreaction to an off-the-cuff remark by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez sympathising with Bolivia's demand for the recovery of its outlet to the sea may have opened the door for others to start exerting real pressure on Santiago. Chile wrested Bolivian territory on the Pacific in a war in 1879, and Bolivia has been seeking to reclaim it ever since.
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