Was this fair?
To the victor go the spoils
Pinochet offered a small sliver of land to Bolivia so they could have a port (in exchange for a larger slice of bolivian land in the south) but Peru sperged about it because the offered bit was originally Peruvian
>>18505414Am I reading this right that Tacna was occupied by Chile for decades while Arica was still Peru
>>18505553After the war of the pacific Chile occupied everything north up to Tacna, but wasn't until several decades that a formal peace deal was made with Bolivia and Chile to cede those territories
>>18505414I get the feeling that bolivia is still bent out to shape as result to losing litoral, and the other thing were the political economy thing that these were the years to the great british depression to grain prices would plunge until after the second world war and what i would like to look at were the political economy to some of those guano saltpeter phosphates potassium nitrate and iodine companies such as the chilean Compañía de Salitres y Ferrocarriles de Antofagasta (CSFA) and Anthony Gibbs and Sons's "Compañía de Salitres de Tarapacá" got a "good, even inflated price" for its nitrate properties and Crozier remarks that they were ready to work for the government only for the profit derived from the iodine production, a fact that was unknown to the Peruvian government.[1]:109–110
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>>18505414Chile is a really interesting country. They are probably the most successful latin american country.
>>18506328Saltpetre, the war was over saltpetre. The Guano was another thing entirely. Not the cause of this particular war.
>>18506423Not a high bar
>>18505539South America has a tradition of respecting uti possidetis, so it's abnormal when evil countries like Chile and Paraguay just go on wars of conquest on places inhabited by citizens of other countries like that. At least Paraguay was properly punished but Chile not only landlocked Bolivia forever but also got rich from the copper they stole from two of the poorest countries in the continent
>>18507968None of the borders of South America were real during the XIX century, it was a mix of old overlapping Viceroyalty borders, and unrecognized claims over miles of untamed mountains and jungle that the SA nations couldn't control or even populate until the late XIX century
>>18508040Most of these disputes were solved by recognizing the country that first settled the territory and held a permanent population there. Chile simply invaded undeniably Bolivian and Peruvian territory with Bolivian and Peruvian CITIES inside it. This is very different from unintegrated jungles
>>18507968Hispanic north america was different. Central america was always in constant war during the 19th century. Even americans had a part in that with william walker. Central american countries are not real countries, just country currently conformed by bunch of post apocalyptic warring city-states with some rural territories as a buffer. Kind of like China during the warring states period.
