Evo Morales will present lawsuit against Chile at The Hague

On next Tuesday the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, will personally present the memory of his country’s demand against Chile before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, to request access to the sea.

The report sets out Bolivia’s legal and historical arguments to defend its claim to Chile for an access to the sea, which it was lost in the War of the Pacific in the late nineteenth century.

On April 24, 2013 Bolivia formally submitted its request to the ICJ to order a judgment requiring Chile to negotiate in good faith and steadiness, a solution to its request for access to the sea, after over a hundred years of dialogue without results.

In the confrontation, Bolivia lost 400 miles of coastline and 120,000 square kilometers of territory.

Evo Morales