From Reuters via Yahoo News: Bolivia goes to World Court over Chile sea access By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Landlocked Bolivia went to the World Court on Monday [05/04/2015], seeking to force Chile to negotiate the granting of a corridor of sovereign territory giving it access to the sea for its natural gas and…
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What are exactly the thirteen points in the Bolivia-Chile agenda?
Bolivia has a serious and long-lasting pending issue with Chile. The following is from El Diario and highlights the 13 point agenda that Bolivia has been conducting with Chile, in the last few years: The thirteen points Bolivia-Chile Here are the 13 points of negotiation between Bolivia and Chile. Point 6, maritime theme was excluded…
History 101: The first territorial dismemberment
Luis S. Crespo wrote for El Diario, August 10, 1927 – 1928: The first territorial dismemberment The background In the chronic of June 3, are referred the industrial and diplomatic history of the bases that was drafted in La Paz to celebrate the border treaty with Chile. There we have seen Chile took advantage of the…
Bolivia History 101: Chile’s invasion forcing us to remain landlocked
Agustin Saavedra writes in El Deber: Another day of landlocked from the sea The Bolivian coastline was usurped by Chile in a conflict started on February 14, 1879. Today, March 23, 2014, 135 years running and the heroism of Eduardo Abaroa in Calama. At the end there was the loss of a vital territory. Chile,…
Bolivian History 101: Brazil occupies Bolivian Acre territory!
Luis S. Crespo writes in El Diario, March 20, 1928: Brazil occupies Bolivia’s Acre The vanguard of the military expedition sent from Rio de Janeiro to invade the Acre, a command under Major Agostinho Gomes Raimundo Castro, occupied and took official possession of the barraca [farm] “Empresa”, obeying the orders and instructions of the Government…
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