Weekly Report - 20 January 2004

MERCOSUR: Kirchner-Lula scheme for Bolivia

Southern Cone 24 April 2007 Modified: 20 January 2004 291 views

Details have emerged of an Argentine-Brazilian scheme to solve Bolivia's landlocked confinement which preceded Hugo Chávez 's famous `Bolivian beach' intervention. The idea was to establish a `peace corridor' straddling the border between Chile and Peru, to be administered under a 99-year concession by Mercosur and its associates (Chile, Bolivia and Peru).

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