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Bolivia's new right-wing government said connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) that it would reconstruct diplomatic relations with Israel, the latest motion of the melodramatic geopolitical realignment nether mode successful the South American state that was erstwhile among the astir vocal critics of Israeli policies toward Palestinians.
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry said its apical diplomat would conscionable his Israeli counterpart successful Washington aboriginal connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) to sermon the revival of bilateral ties, which Bolivia's erstwhile left-wing authorities severed 2 years agone implicit Israel's devastating run against Hamas successful Gaza.
Bolivia said the effort came arsenic portion of a caller overseas argumentation strategy nether blimpish President Rodrigo Paz aimed astatine "rebuilding Bolivia's planetary prestige, opening caller economical opportunities and strengthening alliances that straight payment the state and our citizens abroad."
Bolivian Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo is successful the midst of a whirlwind travel to Washington for meetings with American officials arsenic his authorities works to lukewarm long-chilly relations with the United States and unravel astir 2 decades of hard-line, anti-Western policies nether the Movement Toward Socialism, oregon MAS, enactment that near Bolivia economically isolated and diplomatically allied with China, Russia and Venezuela. Rodrigo Paz's authorities eased visa restrictions connected American and Israeli travellers past month.
In announcing his expected gathering with Aramayo connected Monday (December 8, 2025), Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar thanked Bolivia for scrapping Israeli visa controls and said helium spoke to Mr. Paz aft the centre-right Senator's October 19 predetermination triumph to explicit "Israel's tendency to unfastened a caller chapter" successful relations with Bolivia.
Mr. Paz entered bureau past month, ending the dominance of the MAS party founded by Evo Morales, the charismatic erstwhile coca-growing national person who became Bolivia's archetypal Indigenous President successful 2006. Not agelong aft taking power, Mr. Morales sent Israel's Ambassador packing and cozied up to Iran implicit their shared enmity toward the U.S. and Israel.
When protests implicit Mr. Morales' disputed 2019 reelection prompted him to resign nether unit from the military, a right-wing interim authorities took implicit and restored afloat diplomatic relations with the U.S. and Israel arsenic it sought to undo galore of Mr. Morales' fashionable policies.
But 2020 elections brought the MAS enactment backmost to powerfulness with the Presidency of Luis Arce, who successful 2023 erstwhile again chopped ties with Israel successful protestation implicit its subject actions successful Gaza.
Other left-wing Latin American countries, specified arsenic Chile and Colombia, soon made akin moves, recalling their Ambassadors and joining South Africa's genocide lawsuit against Israel earlier the United Nations' highest judicial body.
