Weekly Report - 06 April 2017 (WR-17-13)

Bolivia’s foreign minister, Fernando Huanacuni, has travelled to Geneva, Switzerland to make a formal complaint against Chile before the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) over the detention by Chilean authorities of nine Bolivian nationals. The incident is serving as the latest source of tension between the two governments which have a case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with regard to Bolivia’s historic claim of access to the Pacific, which it lost in the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific.