LatinNews Daily - 2 July 2015

Bolivia: On 27 June Bolivian media reported that two US government representatives, Michael McGee, a regional consultant of the US Department of Commerce, and Casey Bean, a counselor for the US Department of Agriculture, travelled to La Paz where they met Bolivian authorities to analyse trade relations and investment and cooperation possibilities. The Chargé d'Affaires of the US Embassy in La Paz, Peter Brennan, described the talks as productive. Bilateral relations were severed in 2008 following allegations of interference in Bolivia’s domestic political affairs levelled against the-then US envoy to La Paz, Philip Goldberg. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales accused Goldberg of working to undermine his government and the incident resulted in the expulsion of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from Bolivia and the withdrawal of the respective ambassadors. In 2011 the two governments signed an agreement to improve diplomatic relations but this has failed to produce any progress. On 16 June, during a visit to Washington to attend the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly, Bolivia’s foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, called for a meeting between President Barack Obama and President Morales to normalise diplomatic relations.

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