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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Bolivia landlocked: how lack of ports hinders economic growth
Belen Olmos and Homagni Choudhury write for The Conservation: Bolivia really wants a port (or two) to call its own. For more than a century, the landlocked Latin American country has fought with Chile over sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean and territory that Bolivia lost in a 19th century war with its neighbour. A number of…
The Hague defines procedures for their ruling on the Silala
El Diario reports: Meeting with CIJ The International Court of Justice (ICJ) of The Hague will meet today with the agents of Bolivia, Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, and of Chile, Claudio Grossman, with the purpose of defining the procedure of the trial that the neighboring country interposed by the waters of the Silala and the counterclaim…
evo is the only responsible for the debacle at the ICJ, he must step out!
Ricardo Calla, very harsh but true opinion in Pagina Siete, photos from the internet: The time to resign In 2011, the increasingly authoritarian MAS government announced that it had decided to sue Chile before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as part of a new strategy to achieve the sovereign recovery of access to the…
World Court ruling on Bolivia sea access could force Chile to negotiate
Daniel Ramos in La Paz and Cassandra Garrison in Santiago report for Reuters: SANTIAGO/LA PAZ (Reuters) – A World Court ruling next week on Bolivia’s claim that Chile has ducked a legal obligation to discuss access to the sea could force the Andean neighbors to the negotiating table over a land spat lingering since the…
Bolivian History 101: Loud, true and clear message to Chile: “There is no Silala river”
El Diario reports: Antonio Bazoberry “There is no Silala river” The researcher and expert in the study of watersheds, Antonio Bazoberry Quiroga, through his book The myth of the Silala, dismisses the Chilean thesis presented in his lawsuit against Bolivia and assures that the Silala River does not exist. This statement is based on hydraulic…
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