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…
Tag: invasion
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…
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…
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