Paquisha+War

= Paquisha War = The topic that I will describe in this article is the Paquisha War. The two countries that were in conflict were Ecuador and Peru. Each country had people that kept crossing over each other's boundary due to the fact that they had no boundary stones. This is the reason this war broke out because of a border disputes that turned very serious. This war took place in January-February 1981, this also lead to another conflict in 1995 known as the Cenepa War. The two reasons that are most likely that they did these things was either they didn’t know that they crossed the border (because of no boundary stones), or they wanted to take control of three watch posts. So focusing in on the border disputes, there was another big conflict between Peru and Ecuador in the past which was the war of 1941. In this battle Peru and Ecuador were fighting over any area that had three watch posts. The watch posts gave anyone who controlled them control over part of the Amazon River. Peru believed they controlled that area because of the Rio de Janeiro protocol which was made after the Peruvian-Ecuadorian War in 1941. But Ecuador didn’t agree with the protocol and formed a small army on the border of Ecuador and Peru which started the war that ended in a ceasefire the same year.

In the end Ecuador realized if this war went on they would be completely overrun. Ecuador already lost three army bases and Peru controlled the area the disputes kept happening before the war and the area where the three watch posts were located. This forever changed the border lines and border stones of Ecuador and Peru. But even though Ecuador witnessed what could happen if Peru and them went to war. Ecuador was determined to to control of this area how ever and the Cenepa War in 1995 proves this. So the impact on Ecuador was motivation to keep trying instead of fear towards Peru surprisingly.

The impact on Peru was like a pat on the the back, the impact was uplifting seeing how strong their army was. This made the people of Peru even think that their army could take on anyone's army too for a while. That is my article on the war of 1981 between Peru and between Ecuador over a border dispute that could have ended peacefully with a treaty but sadly ended in a bloody war.

By: Kian Kennedy