AFP reports via Expatica: Bolivia battles Chile at UN’s top court for sea access Landlocked Bolivia took its neighbour Chile to court on Monday, seeking to resolve a century-old dispute over precious access to the Pacific Ocean which has bedevilled bilateral ties. La Paz is urging Santiago to return to talks, contending it has “an…
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Bolivian Team Presents Study On The Origin Of Silala Waters, Chile to face a defeat and ridicule!
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Chile is under severe scrutiny and of course had to fabricate a “diversion” that may also turn against them. This issue only depicts its politicians as mere pirates and liars! Bolivia’s reasoning towards the invasion of our sea coast, as presented to the International Justice Court at The Hague, making us lose our…
139 years of Chile’s aggression against Bolivian sovereignty
El Diario reports: 139 years of Chile’s aggression against national sovereignty [Bolivia lost its maritime attributes and with that enormous development possibilities overseas] 139 years have passed when around 1,500 armed men of Chilean troops disembarked in the Bolivian Littoral, provoking fear among the population, especially women, who were subjected to all kinds of events…
Old Rivalries Still Simmer Between Bolivia and Chile
Caizar Raldes reports for AFP through Stratfor Worldview: Old Rivalries Still Simmer Between Bolivia and Chile For centuries, relations between Bolivia and Chile have been marked by their dispute over territory. Bolivia’s defeat by Chile in the War of the Pacific (1879-83) left the country landlocked, and resentment between the two countries has grown since then….
Silala: Chile not satisfied with the copper and seacoast they violently took away from Bolivia, wants more!
From The Editors for World Politics Review: The Political and Legal Stakes of a Feud Over a Tiny South American River Earlier this month, Bolivian President Evo Morales publicly berated his Chilean counterpart, Michelle Bachelet, for allegedly disclosing the contents of a filing before the International Court of Justice in The Hague concerning the two countries’ battle over the Silala…
History 101: Why were the victories of Canchas Blancas and Tambillos concealed?
Rodolfo Becerra de la Roca writes in El Diario: Why were the victories of Canchas Blancas and Tambillos concealed? Something of which the Chileans boast and boast to the paroxysm, is that their army was always victorious and never defeated. Like so many facts distorted by them, this assertion is nothing more than a fancy…
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