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A Growing List of Latin American Nations Moving to Recognize a Palestinian State
(Los Angeles Times) Daniel Hernandez - Joining a widening trend across Latin America, Chile and Paraguay are poised to recognize a Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 Middle East War. In recent weeks, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Ecuador and Venezuela have all done so. Chile is home to a significant population of about 350,000 mostly Christian Palestinians. Israel has said the South American declarations harm the peace process. "They never made any contribution to [the peace process] and now they're making a decision that is completely contrary to everything that has been agreed so far," a spokesman for Israel's Foreign Ministry said. Colombia, for its part, said it would not recognize a Palestinian state until a peace accord is reached with Israel.