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Thu 05 May 2009US seeks to ease tensions with Bolivia
A senior US diplomat has said Washington hopes for a "new direction" in troubled relations with Bolivia, where he arrived for talks with President Evo Morales.
The visit by Thomas Shannon, the assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, comes eight months after Morales expelled the US ambassador to this South American nation, claiming he had conspired with the opposition to incite violence.
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