By Juan Alberto Quiroz, Facebook: THE CAPTAIN WHO PLAYED THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WITH HIS MACHINE GUN IN THE MIDDLE OF COMBAT “How beautiful it is to fight for the homeland… how beautiful it must be to die defending it.” There is a story buried in the dust of the Chaco that you need to know….
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Who Was Responsible for Triggering the Chaco War? | ¿Quién fue el culpable del estallido de la Guerra del Chaco?
By Raul Rivero, Brujula Digital: Once the Bolivian people learned of this disaster, they soon took to the streets and demanded reprisals, which were carried out with the capture of the enemy fortines Toledo, Corrales, and Boquerón. The spark of the war had been lit. A group of soldiers in the Chaco War between Bolivia…
“Carabineros de Bolivia”
By Soldados de Bolivia, Facebook: Carabineros Unit, on Saavedra Avenue (now Estado Mayor), in La Paz, in the late 1930s The Carabineros institution in Bolivia was founded in January 1937. At that time, the government merged the Security Police with the riflemen regiments to create a new corps called “Carabineros of Bolivia,” inspired by the…
“Bolivia, the Republic” – “Bolivia, la República”
El Diario: “Bolivia, the Republic” through an exhibition In the exhibition, there is the mantle of Bolívar, a piece of invaluable historical and symbolic value. The Casa Nacional de Moneda (CNM), part of the Cultural Foundation of the Central Bank of Bolivia, inaugurated the temporary exhibition “Bolivia, the Republic” in the Inés Córdova Temporary Exhibition…
FIRST AIR COMBAT IN AMERICA -PRIMER COMBATE AÉREO EN AMÉRICA: Chaco hero, Cap. Rafael Pabón
Por/By: Ramiro Molina Alanes 90 YEARS AGO: THE FIRST AIR COMBAT IN AMERICA At around six in the morning on Sunday, December 4, 1932, exactly 90 years ago, in the skies of the Boreal Chaco, one of the most glorious and transcendental feats of our military history took place, the first air combat in America,…
Chaco war: Boquerón
Ignacio Vera de Rada, El Diario: Boquerón, nine decades Exactly ninety years ago, in September ’32, a handful of few men resisted under the severe order not to shoot if it wasn’t at an accurate target. Without water, without food, with the wounded unattended and the dead buried improvised, tempted to eat the only pack…
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