In Bolivia, President Evo Morales met with Assistant US Secretary of State Thomas Shannon on Wednesday to try to restore chilly relations. Morales has previously accused the Bush administration of trying to destabilize his government. Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said Morales raised his allegations with Shannon.

Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca: “Regarding the conspiracy issue, President Morales addressed, over the course of twenty minutes and with the aid of documents, the political operation carried out and being carried out by the US embassy in Bolivia. The Bolivian government, President Morales himself, has requested the United States halt with its political conspiring in Bolivia and instead has posed working together to conspire against poverty.”