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Bolivia was not always landlocked, and very much still resents losing its coastline to Chile during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific https://en.
by PostOnce 7y ago
Bolivia was not always landlocked, and very much still resents losing its coastline to Chile during https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific
They would like to regain control of said coastline. In fact, they have a holiday to commemorate said loss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_del_Mar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_del_Mar
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2015/05/09/beaches-of-the-future https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2015/05/09/beaches-of...
- dgemm 7y agoThey still have a navy, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivian_Navy
- skinnymuch 7y agoWouldn’t Bolivia have been a relatively new country in 1880? Like a multiple of years have passed since that time than before?
- karatinversion 7y agoRoughly the same ratio in Bolivia's history as the Civil War is in the United States'. Some people still make a big deal out of that.