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In nineteenth-century Bolivia, there was a long conflict between local forces in favor of, first, using the port of Arica to export Bolivian products, those centered around La Paz, and second, those who wanted to promote the port of Cobija, on the Bolivian coast, especially in Potosí and Chuquisaca. The creation of international borders hindered transit with Arica, but the remoteness of the Litoral prevented Cobija from becoming a national port. In this article, it is exposed that one of the reasons for the building (and destruction) of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation was the search for a solution to the conflict, overcoming the obstacle of the borders based on uti possidetis. The epistolary collection of President Andrés de Santa Cruz shows the measures taken in this regard and presents Atanasio Hernández, from La Paz, as an example of the ideas of the local forces studied. |
