IQUIQUE, Chile — Landlocked in the heart of South America for the last 125 years, Bolivia wants its beach back, a stretch of sand much like the one in this Chilean city where the world’s ...

Chile brought the claim to the Hague-based court in 2016, arguing that Bolivia was violating international water laws by blocking the flow of the river.

Last year Chile, which has about 8.4 million tons of lithium reserves, processed 14,100 tons of the white metal along salt flats at the foot of the Andes mountains. Bolivia processed less than 1% ...

Lawyers for Bolivia said Monday that Chile's decision to file a case at the United Nations’ top court about a dispute about a river that crosses their border in the Atacama Desert has hampered ...

The landlocked nation wants to reclaim access to the Pacific that it lost in a 19th century war. But it's unclear if Chile will submit to the International Court of Justice and engage in the process.

The neighbors haven’t had diplomatic relations since 1978. Bolivia lost its only sea access to Chile in the 1879-1884 War of the Pacific, causing bitter relations between the two Latin American ...

Bolivia only officially ceded its coastline to Chile in 1904 when the two nations signed the optimistic-sounding Treaty of Peace and Friendship. While the Treaty did result in the codification of ...

The International Court of Justice says it had little to rule on in a long-running dispute over the Silala River which flows from Bolivia to Chile as the Latin American neighbors have mostly ...

Chile and Bolivia took their long-running squabble over Bolivia’s request for ocean access to the World Court on Monday, with Chilean lawyers arguing it was all settled long ago in a 1904 peace ...

Bolivia only officially ceded its coastline to Chile in 1904 when the two nations signed the optimistic-sounding Treaty of Peace and Friendship. While the Treaty did result in the codification of ...