Bolivia used to be a coastal country. Why can we only sigh at the ocean now?

Bolivia is located in the midwest of South America, bordering Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile, and is closely surrounded by these five countries. It is a landlocked country that goes deep into the South American continent. Bolivia is considered as one of the countries with the richest mineral resources in the world, especially the huge reserves of gold and copper. Owning a seaport has become the greatest dream of generations in Bolivia. Bolivia used to be a veritable coastal country, but now the seaport is completely blocked by Peru and Chile.

In the early days of the People's Republic of China, the three countries were all coastal countries. However, in the face of interests, the boat of friendship between the three countries turned upside down. /kloc-in the middle of the 0/8th century, a large number of two silver mines and saltpeter mines were suddenly discovered in the desert area at the junction of the three countries. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this barren land was ignored by the three countries. According to the border at that time, Peru has three regions: Tanna, Adica and Tarapaca, while the Atacama region in Bolivia is the largest and the saltpeter mining area in Chile is the smallest. Among the three countries, the intelligence strength is the strongest, but the actual control area is the smallest. I have been suffering. Although the relationship between the three countries was very delicate at that time and did not come to the brink of war, the early intelligence intentionally increased investment in Bolivia's mining areas through economic means to obtain rich benefits, which was a win-win situation for both countries, but a natural disaster caused huge losses to the mining areas.

In order to quickly restore the post-disaster economy, Bolivia decided to raise the tax of local mining enterprises, which was strongly opposed by investors and dedicated enterprises, so Bolivia directly confiscated the property of Chilean enterprises. This completely angered the efforts, so in 1879, Chile sent troops to directly occupy the mining area. As a military ally of Bolivia, Peru also joined the struggle against it. This is the famous South American Pacific War, also known as the guano war or the vanishing war. In the war, the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru were defeated one after another, occupying all the mining areas of Xiaoshihua and winning a great victory. Bolivia lost all its land at the mouth of the sea because of the war, and Peru also lost three lands rich in mineral resources.

Bolivia has never given up its desire to go to sea from Chile and has resorted to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Although Peru does not want to border with Chile, this proposal, perhaps to find opportunities to regain its texture in the future, has caused cracks in the friendly relations between Bolivia and Peru, two former allies. After being opposed by Peru, Bolivia proposed to the government to draw a coastal corridor in Atacama, their former territory, to exchange information. However, this plan was strongly opposed by Chile on the grounds that if a corridor was drawn here, the northern region would become an enclave, which could not be managed and controlled. Since then, with South America. With the change of the situation, Chile no longer recognizes the existence of territorial problems between the two countries, and Bolivia can no longer have a coastline, so it can only look at the ocean and sigh.