President Bachelet would like to solve the century-old problem of landlocked Bolivia’s access to the Pacific, but she is finding this task to be trickier than expected, as Morales increases gas prices and reduces gas exports to Argentina, Chile’s largest foreign supplier of energy. Nor does Morales’s rhetoric help: accusing the United States of attempting to assassinate him, as he did last week, does not endear him to the elites of a country that has signed a free-trade agreement with the US and whose president will be visiting Washington soon.