BOLIVIAN President Evo Morales is accusing powerful forces in Chile of frustrating bilateral talks on his landlocked country gaining access to the Pacific Ocean.
“At the moment, some people representing the Chilean oligarchies” don’t want negotiations, he said yesterday.
President Morales was speaking after lawyers for Bolivia presented arguments at the International Court of Justice for a second day in the latest attempt to solve the decades-long dispute.
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