The Chaco War: Every Week
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2025
- In the early 1930s, Paraguay fought tooth and nail with Bolivia over controlling the Chaco region.
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Information Sources:
"Algunas armas utilizadas en la guerra del Chaco 1932-1935" from Aquellas Armas de Guerra
The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, and Nationalism by Bridget María Chesterton
D.K. Atlas of World History
latinamericanstudies.org/chaco-war.htm
Wikipedia
Music used:
"Devastation and Revenge" by Kevin MacLeod
found at www.incompetech.com
Been meaning to remake this one for a while. Enjoy!
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Despite its size, Paraguay has quite a long war history, known to have fought every single one of its neighbours.
@Gabriel Oliveira They still fought the war relatively successfully. The fact that they were at war with Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil at the same time speaks for itself.
@@LeDoctorBones Actually it was Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay as Bolivia was preparing to fight a war with Chile
Bro do you even know what success means 💀
@Gabriel Oliveira Fake. Between 8% and 16% of the entire population died. There is no proof that 90% of the male population was killed.
Didn't they lose like 70% of their male population in the preceding war?
Interesting to note that this was the first combat use of tanks in the Americas with Bolivian Vickers 6-ton tanks!
Brazil used Renault FT three wars before Bolivia in the Chaco War (1924 lieutenant revolt in São Paulo, 1930 revolution and 1932 revolution)
@@inhambumapper22 internal affairs count?
@@mattdaniel6071 well, civil wars are also wars
Paraguay just said "mine" and just like that bolivia lost its tanks
@@realdragao6367 Ukrainian farmers can relate to Paraguay
Im just surprised that Paraguay still exists after every thing that hapened in its history.
Paraguay only exists because one of the most forgettable U.S. presidents stepped in to prevent it being wiped off my map.
@@wizard680 Ah yes, Rutherford B. Hayes. Also the guy to get electricity in the White House.
@@wizard680 Bolivian detected
It acted as a buffer state between Brazil and Argentina.
Just like once was Poland (between Germany and Russia).
@@augustobarbosab.773 And Belgium, also Armenia during the Roman times
Chaco War, (1932-35), costly conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay. Hostile incidents began as early as 1928 over the Chaco Boreal, a wilderness region of about 100,000 square miles (259,000 square km) north of the Pilcomayo River and west of the Paraguay River that forms part of the Gran Chaco. The conflict stemmed from the outcome of the War of the Pacific (1879-84), in which Chile defeated Bolivia and annexed that country’s entire coastal region.
thanks for information.
Copied from Wikipedia
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So the war was partially caused by Chile stealing lots of coast line, got it!
@@darkphoenix2745 1870 sir
An interesting note: The Bolivian Armed Forces overthrew the president midway through the war, executing a coup detat just 12km from the front line.
And fun fact: the high comand surrounding the president's house was the best encirclement they've done during the whole war
The history of Paraguay is often overlooked but it is so rich and interesting!
Who can forget the triple alliance war where basically the entire adult male portion of Paraguay's population was K.I.A?
@@Tower_Swagman never happened
@@Paulo-sb4de Yes, it's happened fool
@@blast8363 paraguayan lies
@@Tower_Swagman Not the ENTIRE population, but an important part... sigh, 90% is a big number tho.
>Be Paraguay
>Defend
>Some land is lost in the start
>Wait for it
>LEROYYYYY JENKINS
>YOLO your way to the end of the war
0:14 - 0:56 Paraguay: how do i play
0:56 - 1:45 Paraguay: dont worry guys i figured it out
Upeicha.
@@edwardcardozo8325 Guaraní?
Thank you for doing a mapping video on my country, Paraguay! Greetings from here!
After the war of triple alliance
Paraguay: Dang, those neighbors are too strong, wonder if there is any neighboring country that we could match with
Paraguay: (Looking at Bolivia)
Bolivia: (sweats nervously)
Paraguay: *SAY NO MORE*
Paraguay: *Finally, some weak dude at last.*
@@figtree_video_archive they aint weak, Felix just used hes brain to beat them with only 100k soldiers while bolivia had almost 300k and tanks
@@giovannimarecoortiz1122 weak in mind
But it was Bolivia who provoked the war, not the other way
The last time when Bolivia started losing land
For the paraguayan they also lost land.
@@alvaro1999ification that was before this.
And now Bolivia and Chile are getting in a diplomatic crisis over the former's lack of a sea port that was supposedly promised to them. I'm wondering if another war is going to break out in South America (hopefully not, but the Russia-Ukraine clash might encourage other countries to try similarly).
@@thunderbird1921 if it happens it would be like 30 years since we had a conflict majorly talked about in South America
Bolivia lost some land to basically every neighbor.
1,200,000km² in total and that's the size of the two Texas' combined 😬
The Chaco region was claimed by Bolivia but never had a permanent bolivian occupation, except for military settlements. Paraguay had an effective presence in the territory since the end of the 19th century.
Paraguay 🇵🇾，and my country Republic of China (Taiwan) 🇹🇼 have diplomatic and friendly relations. 😁
@ALL in One Gaming BD But the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 is determined to destroy our Republic of China 🇹🇼. I hate the People's Republic of China 🇨🇳 very much.
yes! I've heard that there is a school called "Chiang Kai Shek"
@@LLENN0420 Good on you.
@ALL in One Gaming BD Screw the PRC and screw the One China Policy from both sides. Tibet, Sinkiang, Inner Mongolia, etc. shouldn't be ruled by a foreign government, be it in Beijing or Taipei.
@@_delastern3163 there was lol it closed now due to the pandemic
why is it most people don't even know paraguay exists yet it had one of the most buckwild histories of any nation 😭
Paraguay is Beautiful, I have been there. Me as a Colombian can recognize that Paraguayans are basically Colombians, it is just that they are more Southwards
South America as a whole has an insane history but literally the only way of even getting a concept of them existing is by someone else telling you.
I remember learning just a few factoids about Paraguay's war under Francisco Solano Lopez, in which this self-identified Napoleon of South America also waged war against all his neighbours and was eventually defeated after 6 years, and a huge loss of population, from "Ripley's Believe it or not" as a kid. Not exactly authoritative history, but in the pre-internet age it was a great vehicle for tiny bits of arcane knowledge. Never forgot that anecdote. I think the main reason for its remembrance in the outside world is Lopez' Irish mistress, Eliza Lynch, a colorful character in her own right.
Not much memorial to the sufferings of Paraguayan soldiers in some of the harshest environmental conditions of any campaign, but at least one Canadian guy remembers the War of the Triple Alliance.
@@randomobserver8168 Brazil= Nazi
Brazil invade Uruguay
Alemania invade Polonia
Yeah
Story time: During most fo the 30s, the Argentine and Paraguayan government were very friendly, and they had a lot of indirect support during the war and under-the-table dealings during the war. The biggest of these was in the form of Saavedra Lamas, the Argentine foreign minister, who was an important figure during all the peace talks and negotiations. Saavedra Lamas would inform the Paraguayan foreign minister of the proposals, and if they felt it didn't benefit Paraguayan ambitions, or it threatened Argentina's plans for diplomatic hegemony (see "anti-war treaty of non-aggression and conciliation" and "ABCP pact"), the proposal got turned down.
Up to 6 proposals got shut down, and at one point their meddling resulted in the US withdrwaing their diplomats from the scene.
Saavedra Lamas won a Nobel Peace Prize.
Nice
Marshal Jose Felix Estigarribia! Glorious leader of the Paraguayan army during the Chaco war
Yeah
excellent video, a very interesting and somewhat forgotten war, greetings from Argentina
I am curious how long it took for people living in annexed regions of South America to start identifying with their new country.
Most of them were sparsely inhabited (by the native peoples) or not inhabited at all.
Disputed territories that have been outright annexed in North and South America have had the tendency of being sparsely populated. The only one I can think of that wasn't the case is the Haitian conquest of the Hispanola island, though that didn't last long due to subsequent insurgency.
Most were Indigenous so no identifying with any side.
Search for "chilenizacion of Tacna y Arica"
Poor Bolivia, constantly jobbing to everyone.
Bolivia hasn't won a single war it seems, including losing to the country that lost 90% of its adult male population.
But on the plus side, Bolivia never lost 90% of its adult male population.
@@ennui9745 what if Uruguay Brazil and Argentina were at war with bolivia
@@idoit5067 Haha, then it might happen.
So the war for independence wasn’t a war?
@@portibolivia Not sure if that should count considering they had outside help, but that's why I said "it seems".
my great-great-grandfather fought in this war, which unfortunately died, it is sad to see that it is one of the worst wars that has passed through my country, the truth is, and I hope that something like this does not happen again in our country, greetings from Bolivia 🇧🇴
All wars of your country were lost 😃
Xd
@@Alan_pl924 that's false, Bolivia won around 5 wars (not counting civil wars, of course)
@@Alan_pl924 and the peace treaty of the Chaco war says it was a draw
(aparte, ¿porqué te haces el europeo? Eres más hispano qué un peninsular)
@@Alan_pl924bolivia le gano todas sus guerras a peru
All of this is really appreciated, you create art
I love how you still keep the tradition of making these windows movie maker style.
Paraguay has a tendency of declaring wars on much larger neighbors. I will never understand what compels them to
Well it didnt go bad in this one
Its because paraguayan males have achieved the sigma male grindset, therefore you are not chad enough to understand why they attack "stronger" nations
it's called trying to get more territory, Paraguay a lot of times wanted to colonize the lands of other countries because they were empty and they could colonize them, create cities, get land to raise cattle or cut down trees, solve some problems with unemployment, the problems of having a small land and a group of people that want to use that land
@@lorenzmaut3708 cuando no estas ni un poco informado y opinas:
@@lorenzmaut3708 paraguay jamás quiso tomar nuevos territorios,la guerra de la triple alianza ocurrió por la agresión brasileña en Uruguay,la guerra del chaco ocurrió por los ataques bolivianos a los fortines paraguayos.
Important note: Even though Paraguay won the war, the tiny part of Bolivia's Chaco contains pretty much all of the oil and natural gas on the region lol
yes, but the war never was for the oil and natural gas
@@darkphoenix2745 How do you know we never had any problems? And although it is "desert land" at the end of the day it is land, the war was as its name says, for the Chaco
@@darkphoenix2745 The Chaco cuestion are after the independence, Bolivia and Paraguay reclaimed all the chaco boreal, but the gobernents never negociated, during the Paraguayan war the Bolivian president ofreced military help to Paraguay, but With the condition Paraguay ceded they reclamations, after 1870 the negociations proceded but no acord, only when Bolivia lose anfogasta to Chile in the pacific war Bolivia want the chaco boreal for have at atlantic route from the Paraguay river
@@darkphoenix2745 basically bolivia wants a route to the atlantic from the paraguay river, and paraguay wants more lands, the oil and gas motivation are secondary
@@darkphoenix2745 the route from peru is expensive, the atlantic route is cheap, and at that time it was more difficult to achieve, that is why the bolivian government preferred to want to annex the chaco, and the negociations before 1870 i don't know, but after 1870 are 9 negociations
Great Video Man!
На стороне Парагвая были царские офицеры-белоэмигранты,а на стороне Боливии-эмигрировавший германский кайзеровский офицер.
World War I 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Great War 2.0
Source?
Os paraguaios foram treinados pelos franceses e não pelos russos
@@ryanncorreia3770 Ele esta falando do oficialato durante a guerra e de fato os bolivianos tinham em seus numeros muitos oficiais alemães, principalmente Hans Kundt e do lado paraguaio muitos russos imigrantes
now i know why the main stadium in paraguay is called "defensores del chaco".
Could you make some more every day content?
I did 2 weeks ago.
I have the feeling that Bolivia lost all wars they got involved. They lost territory to Chile, Brazil and Paraguay. It should have been a much larger country with access to the sea.
cuz bolivia had trash generals but good equipment
Bolivia won around 5 wars (not counting civil wars of course)
In fact, the territories Bolivia was born with didn't have the departamentos of Pando and Tarija which belonged to Peru and Argentina respectively
El pais que fue derrotado por todos sus vecinos en sudamerica es peru
I cannot but help root for Paraguay after all said and done.
Much admiration from America over here.
It was bloody on all sides, all sides pretty much agree that the whole thing just sucked and that there were no real winners.
The video doesn't do the complexity justice either (not a critique of the video, the point was to show general land domination and it did that), as indigenous tribes, federal governments, neighboring countries, and independent groups all had part in the war.
That's what happens when you entrust a guy with your entire strategy just because he's German.
All throughout 1933, Paraguay only took bite-sized pieces out of Bolivia until the start of 1934 when suddenly they just swept over a huge chunk of the region. lol
There is only one known person still living that fought in this war. He is almost 109 years old.
What is His name?
@@Darium147 Basilio Gonzalez
hay más de uno
@@juanravera6502 ¿realmente? ¿Pudieses compartir tu fuente?
@@rjhwinner0315 Don Antolin Sánchez Fleitas con 106 años de Paraguay
So THAT’S why Bolivia has a core on half of Paraguay! Also, I love how it’s a stalemate for several weeks, then Paraguay suddenly remembers they’re at war.
There is no such thing as "core" in this case since that area had no native bolivian or paraguayan population. It was a semi-desert habited by inhospited native tribes
@@jachiier2195 he is talking about a videogame lol
@@lautarocardozo5214 yeah i realize now 😂
@@jachiier2195 "core" as in HOI4 lol
ask el salvador, venezuela, and peru for guns, cannons, and convoys. start the war christmas 1936, wait till bolivia gets 0 manpower and walk on to la paz. chile is hard to take on alone, so coup them then join war from faction, kick from faction and justify. chile will have 2 divisions after coup. argentina can be taken on alone after chile is annexed or puppeted. peru is really difficult to take down. i would suggest building up an airforce or navy then coup them. ecuador next, if usa has monroe doctrine completed by this time, coup all non allied nations and they will no longer back communist nations.
My most sincere words of support from 🇲🇽❤️🇵🇾
(If it happened modern day this would be your average comment)
You should show how the terrain looks on the map
No wonder why Bolivia has a core on the Chaco region in Hoi4 lol
Bolivians had maybe better army, but logistics and whole organization was far better on Paraguayan side.
Ironically, rest of Bolivian Chaco is oil rich and conquered land by Paraguay is just a dry plain with some swamp areas.
There are rich areas on Paraguayan side too
Many paraguayan soldiers fought machete in hand in a mechanized war of tanks, planes, machine guns and flamethrowers Bolivian soldiers were terrified of the paraguayan machete...
@NACIONAL-CORPORATIVISTABusca "Los macheteros de la muerte" guerra del chaco en mi foto pérfil podés observar al soldado paraguayo con su machete y su fusíl siendo portada en una revista alemana en épocas del tercer reich.
Con solo decir que en ninguna una batalla se uso el machete se cae la mentira que les dicen en paraguay ajjajaja solo pavon ya los estaba dejando sin fuerza aerea
@Nacional-Corporativistaes mentira paraguay vive de puras mentiras que solo ellos se creen
@@hugobanzer1442 Vos estuviste ahí? Para cuestionar el relato de los propios veteranos hasta videos hay.
@@soldadodesconocido8051 dime alguna batalla donde se uso solo machete dichas por historiadores internacionales y no la mentira que les enseñan en paraguay
Bolivia : LETS GO GAMBLING !
*loses land*
Aw dang it !
*loses land*
Aw dang it !
*loses land*
Aw dang it !
*loses land*
Aw dang it !
Nice video! I still paciently waiting history of caucasus! ^^
There's already one by Khey Pard.
The music is "Devastation and Revenge" by Kevin MacLeod.
Story Time: During the Chaco War, the Brazilian ship 'Paraguay' was mistakenly attacked by Bolivian planes on the Paraguay River near Puerto Mihanovich. This action by the Bolivians led Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas to send eleven naval planes and the Brazilian navy to the region to patrol
Imagine losing to a country smaller than you
Peru contra ecuador😂
@EnjauladorDeMigranteS Chile?? Desde Chile llegaban las armas a Bolivia, debido al tráfico ilegal. Si los bolivianos acusan a Argentina de ayudar a Paraguay por proveer armas, lo mismo hizo Chile con Bolivia.
cruel but forgotten war this war should appear in all history books!
Bolivia try to stay intact challenge (it will fail)
South America quickly turning back to normal for Hoi4 start date.
Finally a remake of this!
Why is this war incredibly unknown
I was just posted minutes ago
What program do you use to make these videos?
Would have been better if the vid also showed battles as well as casualties.
You forget about the division of Chaco between 35-37
Great job! I only wish it showed daily changes but still alright
@@VOGS597 the what 👁️👄👁️
bro went straight up for the victory points and got encircled
Idea : First - Second Ayutthaya - Toungoo war
Bolivia still taking L's
I ve never heard of this war before
Nigerian civil war, congo wars, sudanese civil wars ? And also have all beligerants included
Two bald me fighting over a comb,
basically
Yoooooooo
Someone noticed us!
How TF did Paraguay do that
i cant be the only one who thought this said the chicago war at first
even tho paraguay wins why did it lose land
Because Paraguay's economy was about to colapse, Bolivia knowed this so they demanded more of the Chaco in the peace conferences held in Argentina.
@@lautarocardozo5214 but 0 ws
Paraguay in the War of triple Alliance: Loses 70% of Population and Stability Paraguay after 1935 in Chaco War: Steals the Territory Against Bolivia.
Guerra de países con mar
Am k the only one who saw the Chicago war?
Paraguay punches way above its weight
For added context about how this affected Bolivia, it was common practice in this war for Aymara activists - and likely other indigenous activists - in Bolivia to be drafted into the conflict - where the odds of death/capture and surviving were 50/50. If you lived and came back, congrats! The country's leadership sees you as someone who didn't work hard enough in the latest war to cost Bolivia both land and access to the Atlantic. Everyone knew someone who died, was captured or injured.
There is a direct line between this war and the Revolution of 1952.
imagine having a well equipped army with tanks,aircraft modern artillery still yet lose to paraguayan army that not even have enough boots and non air superiority and outnumbered with population only 880 000 against bolivian more than 2 million ppl..wtf bolivia
Eso es lo que ocurre cuando un pais tiene mala organización
Bolivia w as extremely divided by race and politics, Paraguay was more than eager to fight, plus, we had much better comunications and a language no other country knows, logistics are as important as the guns in a war
The Paraguayan army had been preparing for war since 1928 that they did not have boots was not entirely true all soldiers had them but a part preferred to take it out in the extreme heat of the Chaco
Pero si al final paraguay perdio nunca gano una guerra
"What if Bolivia didn't completely suck in every war they fought."
The South American war of consolation
Punching bags of south America: -paraguay- bolivia
Peru
The war for the oil, except there wasn't any oil on those regions. Paraguay gained an sterile land that doesn't even mind to ocupy to this day.
The only two landlocked countries in the Americas
Hello, Can you please make a video about the Slovak National Uprising? It was and uprising during ww2 against the nazi first slovak republic government and against german army. thanks!
Paraguway supremacy🇵🇾💪💪
Should've kept going smh
Fun Fact: Paraguay was kinda the Prussia of Latin America until it got mauled during the Paraguayan War, and only remained as a buffer between Argentina and Brazil, but then it become a comercial hub for the non-Taxed products in the point in wich the tree countries meet
If it were the Prussia of Latin America they wouldn't need to send children to the frontlines lmao
@@lautarocardozo5214 Yes that was after their half budget army got crushed
Where's the "fun" on that if they were too far away of being the "Prussia" of LATAM?
@@rocamboler1776 Their army followed similar principles, in fact the society was a warrior one, with a disiplined, suicidal army, with the best of the armament, but that played against them when they planed the ill fated attack on Tuyuti, as they never gave up.
@@lautarocardozo5214 no se si entiendes español,pero te explico,paraguay no mando niños a la guerra,los mismos niños se ofrecían para luchar,ya que ellos sabían que era eso o morir,ya que los aliados mataban a todo hombre que veían,y en algunos casos también mujeres.
So Paraguay’s modern borders were created a few years after the nazis rose to power, we learn something new everyday my guys!
Czechoslovakia supported Bolivia
Holy Crap ! 1:21
All of Bolivia's neighbors, hippity hoppity your lan is now my propterty
Look at Paraguay go!!!!
Paraguay is Germany in South America 😂
Germany surrendered Paraguay will never surrended its motto "win or die"
@@soldadodesconocido8051 Truth. They lost like 60% of their adult males in the Triple alliance war
@@Brslld 90% de la población masculina solo quedaron niños y ancianos
@@soldadodesconocido8051 overkill
@@Brslld El 60 % seria la población total del Paraguay muerta en la guerra de la triple alianza y el 90 % serian hombres...la guerra terminó por el simple hecho de que ya no habian hombres para el combate nadie se rindió.
Paraguay is like the Poland of South America
Laos vs thailand war please
when bolivia thought their territorial loss by chile couldn't get worse
Epoc video
When something happened in South America.
*Huey Long has left the chat*
Next do Russo-Ukraine War: First 2 weeks
Paraguay really is strong
EmperorTigerstar you're my inspiration! I made a simulation of Russian-Ukrainian war develop, on my channel.
Looks like paraguay had some german generals
Ironically, Bolivia actually used a German general but failed anyway.
@@EmperorTigerstar No se si entiendes español,pero el general alemán,hans kundt,intento utilizar estrategias de la primera guerra mundial en el chaco,cosa que por obvios motivos salio mal,jose felix estigarribia,considerado el mejor estratega de América,utilizo sus propias estrategias y las más adecuadas al chaco,una de ellas era el movimiento de pinza.
nel, los alemanes no sirven en la guerra, los oficiales rusos si
Paraguay had russian oficers while Bolivia had german general
@@KLESCH-ul3bc belive me or not i forgot what i wanted to say with tht
South american Prussia
Bolivia may be an interesting country, but warfare and statecraft aren't its strong suits.
The Paraguayans deserved
Hi
Pobre bolivi a perdiendo todas sus guerras
Ya parece peru con ecuador
chad paraguay