Peter Suciu reports for The National Interest: Dust your history book off. It isn’t uncommon for wars to result from territorial disputes. Land has long been a motivating factor in what causes nations to take up arms, but in the annals of military history rarely would powers go to war to control a coastal strip…
Tag: 1879 Pacific war
Rufino Carrasco, the winner of the battle of Tambillo of 1879 – Rufino Carrasco, el vencedor de la batalla de Tambillo de 1879
Elvis Fuertes reports for Pagina Siete: Rufino Carrasco, the winner of the battle of Tambillo of 1879 After being abandoned in the desert, Colonel Carrasco have been arrested and harassed in the city of Potosí by mandate of General Narciso Campero, who coveted to take command of the country. Few know his history, but the…
Bolivia loses 11% of GDP due to maritime confinement
El Diario reports: Anual average Bolivian exporters must face a cost 33.2% higher than the regional average TRANSPORTATION EXPLAINS MAJOR LOSSES INCURRED BY BOLIVIA FOR ITS CENTENARY LANDLOCKED. A work done by economist Rodrigo Burgoa found that the maritime enclosure that Bolivia suffers since the invasion of its coast in February 1879 has a negative…
Every year on ‘Día Del Mar,’ Bolivia celebrates the coastline they lost
Chantelle Bacigalupo reports for PRI’S The World: Local authorities take part in the events commemorating the “Día del Mar,” or “Day of the Sea,” which refers to the day on which Bolivia lost its access to the sea to Chile during the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific, in La Paz, Bolivia, March 23, 2017. The…
The fraudulent causes of Chile that cloistered Bolivia
Rodolfo Becerra writes in El Diario: The terrible question of the confinement of Bolivia is a chapter that should shame America, because it is not alone in the dispossession of its ports, nor in the closure of its territory connected to the sea nor in the usurpation of its considerable natural resources or in confinement…
Carlos Lizárraga presents The Filibusters of the Pacific
Pagina Siete reports: The author of the work devoted five years of his life to investigate all the backstage of the Pacific War. The republican origins of the claims of Chile on the Litoral, the complicit act of the Bolivian mining oligarchies before, during and after the Pacific War, and the economic interests hidden after…
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