LA PAZ, Bolivia — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Bolivia’s Evo Morales said Saturday they hope their countries are on the road to repairing badly strained relations.
After meeting for more than two hours in the Bolivian capital, Carter told Morales he doesn’t doubt President Barack Obama’s stated intention that he wants to improve ties.
The Bolivian leader responded that he has “great interest in bettering relations with the new U.S. government.”
Washington and La Paz have been without top-level representation in each other’s capitals since September, when Morales accused the U.S. ambassador of inciting the political opposition and kicked him out of the country.
The government of former President George W. Bush responded in kind.
