Treaty of Ancón

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The Treaty of Ancón was signed by Peru and Chile on October 20, 1883 in Ancón , Lima , Peru and ratified on January 13 of the following year by the Chilean and on March 8 by the Peruvian side .

prehistory

The treaty was intended to resolve the territorial conflict after the Saltpeter War (1879–1883) in order to create a stable post-war order. In that war Chile had defeated Peru and Bolivia .

Provisions

The text of the treaty stipulated that Chile got control of the Región de Tarapacá . Chile also occupied the provinces of Tacna and Arica for ten years . Afterwards referendums should regulate the further whereabouts.

Continuous tension

However, Tacna and Arica remained under Chilean occupation for a much longer time because the two parties could not agree on the terms of the referendum. In 1910 Peru finally broke off diplomatic relations with Chile.

Finally, a solution was found in 1929, mediated by US President Herbert Hoover . The Tacna-Arica compromise hit Arica Chile, while Tacna fell back to Peru. In addition, Peru received financial compensation of US $ 6 million and several other concessions.

literature

  • William Jefferson Dennis: Tacna and Arica. An account of the Chile-Peru Boundary dispute and of the Arbitrations by the United States . Yale University Press, New Haven 1931.

Web links

Wikisource: Tratado de Ancón  - Sources and full texts (Spanish)

Footnotes

  1. European talks. Hamburg Monthly Issues for Foreign Policy , vol. 6 (1928), p. 538.