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Following the victory of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party in the 2008 U. S. presidential election, relations between Bolivia and the U. S. improved, although remained strained.

After the U. S. backed the 2011 military intervention in Libya by NATO forces, Morales condemned Obama, calling for his Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked ; in this he was backed by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.

In November 2011, the Bolivian and U. S. governments agreed to restore diplomatic relations, although Morales refused to allow U. S. agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) back into the country.