Condor,
“A-29, you are not well informed. It wasn’t because the Straight of Beagle. It was because Argentina denied the results of an international and neutral arbitration for the possesion of three chilean islands near the Beagle channel, three islands they were claiming as theirs. Nevertheless, the argentinians (and chileans, indeed) accepted to go ahead for the international arbitration, but when they knew the result (logically) favored Chile, they rejected it. That was the origin for the tensions in 1978”
Well, this was Straight of Beagle as you mentioned “…..islands near the Beagle channel”.
“The war was not two centuries ago, A-29. It was 125 years ago, and Bolivia never had sovereing titles over the Pacific Ocean coast nor a territory on their posession in that area. Thus, Bolivia never has sovereing access to the Pacific Ocean. (You should read about the formation of the South American states in the 19th century to understand this…)
As for the “part of the sea that originally was part of Bolivia”, well A29…there are some misundersandings here again too.
There was chilean people living and working there for decades and Chile officially incorporated these territories after Bolivia and Peru declared the war in 1879 (both northern countries signed a secret pact to fight against Chile, before the war even started), war that Chile finally won in 1884.
You surely know that Chile and Bolivia signed a Peace Treaty in 1904. All the differences between the two countries -geographics and boundaries too- were sealed and fixed by this treaty.
Current bolivian claimings over the Pacific basically obeys to the unstable political scenario of the country, plagued with corruption and political injustice and theft, where the nationalists (and vague) claimings are the sole factor of unity in that nation, blinded by false promises of progress and better times, made by their political leaders, headed by their president.”
I made the mistake not to write exactly in years, but 125 years or 200 years is long ago anyway.
If Chile incorporated officially these territories, based on what? If because a war between Bolivia and Peru, Chile stole the part of the sea that was territory from Bolivia and finally with the peace agreement, Chile got definitive possesion on that. So, Bolivia had sea territory in the past.
I agree with you that Bolivia is unstable, a corrupt country etc…but, the claim makes sense according to history. we know that they will not get anything, but, make sense.
Regards.
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