On June 14 in Bolivia’s southeastern province of Tarija, Bolivian President Luis Arce and his Paraguayan counterpart, Mario Abdo Benitez, met to commemorate the 87th anniversary of the June 12, 1935, end of the 1932–1935 Chaco War, a vicious, senseless fratricidal conflict orchestrated by Anglo-Dutch financier interests that sought control over oil wealth in the Chaco region of both nations. More than 100,000 Paraguayans and Bolivians died in this brutal conflict. See https://larouchepub.com/other/2005/3235chaco_war.html for background.
During the ceremony in the city of Villamontes, the two Presidents determined that the best way to pay homage to the war dead was to promote binational and regional development. Abdo invited Bolivia to join the Bioceanic Integration Rail Corridor (CFBI) intended to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean from Brazil’s port of Santos traversing Brazilian, Paraguayan, and Argentine territory, connecting to two terminus points in the Chilean cities of Iquique and Antofagasta.
There had been recent talk that Bolivia would be excluded from this project. But Abdo told Arce: “In homage to our fallen, we are building infrastructure projects that will allow our region to become a great logistical corridor, not just for our nations but also for the region.” The bioceanic route being built today “will allow the connectivity between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans running through the Chaco, and Bolivia must be part of the bioceanic corridor, dear President.”
Arce readily accepted Abdo’s offer, noting that this project “will unite our two countries and from here, from the Chaco, we’ll join the route which will undoubtedly benefit the whole continent.”
