The Chilean policy toward Bolivia, 1900-1930: The establishment of a structural discourse

Abstract

This article analyzes the constitution of international discourse about the conflict of Chile and Bolivia Treaty of 1904, which set the following relations between the two countries. Is selected the period 1900-1930, because it corresponds to the decades during which Chile stabilized its relations with the three neighboring countries through treaties of 1902, 1904 and 1929. The hypothesis proposed in this paper is that during this period the speech and Chilean politics were consolidated. On the one hand, this speech was prepared under a rational and legal approach, which is based on a deeper process and associated with
the establishment of the Chilean identity, whose components catalyzed with the Pacific War. Furthermore, both identity and address, Gritty truths became, whose validity has remained to the present. The preparation of this work is based on the annual report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, the main source informs us about this speech and politics to which it gave rise.