Security & Strategic Review - February 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BOLIVIA-CHILE-PERU | Tangled diplomacy. At the 27-28 first summit of Celac in Santiago, Bolivian president Evo Morales renewed his country’s demand for sovereign access to the Pacific and his stance that the postwar 1904 treaty that gave its Pacific territory to Chile is void because it was signed by Bolivia under duress. On 2 February, in an interview published by the newspaper La Tercera, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera said that ‘on several occasions’ his government had offered Bolivia an autonomous enclave in northern Arica, next to Chile’s border with Peru — but without ceding sovereignty over that enclave to Bolivia.

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