"Iyambae, ser libre" : the Chaco War (1932-1935)
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 Introduction : Official causes of the war |
 In 1932 after internal years of fights concerning the territorial rights of the Great Chaco Area between Bolivia and Paraguay, a war bursts. The territorial argument was fomented by the large oil companies which believed in the existence of oil on this area. More than 100.000 natives will die in this conflict in the dry trenches of Great Chaco. |
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 Boqueron : Geographical Environment |
 Testimonys. "the war was a cataclysm".
Song: "the remote wind brings a perfume of the mounts to us, listens to the song and accompanied by your guitarre..." Indigenous territory in Great Chaco. Visualization of the desert plains. Isoso, Rio Parapeti Bolivian side.
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 Indigenous territory - Testimonys |
 Focus on an ex-warrior of the Chaco War: Marcelo Vaca, which will tell us its memories:"Imagine these ways strewn with corpses...". "Paraguay was over there, it appears that here it is Bolivia... after the cataclysm started by the white people, much died to defend the territory... it was a great conflict, but why?...".
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 Paraguayan Chaco - Testimonys |
 Testimony of the rev. Miguel Fritz, vicar apostoloqie of Pilcomayo, Paraguay. The rev. Fritz reconsiders the first steps of the conflict in particular over the years 1925 when Bolivian and Paraguayan started to want to decide to share the territory. |
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 Isoso Bolivia - Testimonies |
 Testimony of Justa Mandiri, Isoso, Bolivia. It tells us: "I was born at the moment from the high winds...", "the Paraguayans speak the same language as us...", "at that time, we do not know militate them of our territory, and for this reason, we did not know that there was a border...", "but when white people arrived they named the territory and said to which he belonged, at this point in time we knew what was the border...", "the conflict arrived because of this border...", "we knew the flag....", "much of people died: men, women, children, old... "," much died of thirst, by the weapons with fire... it was a giant cataclysm which has very affected... "," that creates much poverty, much subjected themselves because of poverty... ". |
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 Chaquenos Indigenous |
 While the Chaqueños lived quiet on their ground... Men in the fields, women weaving, women grinding, men buveant the tarere (subdue), children playing the balls in front of the house...
Return to the images of the soldiers. |
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 Memory of War |
 Rio Parapeti, Isoso, Bolivia. Simulation of a departure to the engagements in a poor family of Isoso. This passage, without words, simulates the last meal with its family of a man who leaves to the engagements. The departure occurs night. The woman remains alone and pours tears. |
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 Testimony 2 |
 Isoso, Bolivia. Common testimonys of Marcelino Vaca and Rosendo Federico:"war started in 1932 and finished in 1935...", "me and my brother we were small but we knew the businesses of large well...", "we heard the shootings from on our premises...". These testimonys are intersected with images of the combat (sepia). "we were made prisoners by the Paraguayans...", "we all were under the capacity of the Paraguayans and we did not know what was going to occur...", "but they were good with us...", "they spoke Spanish but much, like the colonel, knew our language...". |
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 Testimony 3 |
 Isoso, Bolivia. Testimony of Augustin Chiraye "we did not know anything the government...", "I were 14 years old...", Incrustation of images (sepia). |
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 Testimony 4 |
 Isoso, Bolivia. Testimony of Natalio Barrientos: "we did not know anything the white...", "we could not discuss with the white...", "we could not defend our rights, to defend us...", "children did not have any more parents and walked right in front of them...", Incrustation of images of war (sepia). |
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 Return to the village. |
 Testimony of the rev. Miguel Fritz, vicar apostolic of Pilcomayo, Paraguay. Archives images, scene of life of the natives (sepia). Image of archives on the war (sepia). |
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 Testimony 5 |
 Testimony of Catalma Aguillera, Filadelfia, Paraguay: "I lived with my mother...", "the way of the return was long, we returned by foot...", "I was a little girl but I remember well...", " |
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 Testimony 3 (2d part) |
 Isoso, Bolivia. Testimony of Augustin Chiraye "we did not know anything the government...", "I were 14 years old...", Archives images (sepia). |
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 Testimony 2 (2d part) |
 Isoso, Bolivia. Testimony of Marcelino Vaca: " while returning in Isoso, we did not have to eat... "," |
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 Testimony 6 |
 Testimony of Pablino Romero - Filadelfia - Paraguay |
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 Testimony 4 (2d part) |
 Isoso, Bolivia. Testimony of Natalio Barrientos: "After the war, there was no more justice, for us, the natives...", "the white which were there... killed all those that they met... without reason...", "it is our suffering... the authority never recognized anything...", ' the white did not look us like men but like animals... ", |
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 Testimony 7 |
 Testimony of Paolo Barrientos, Laguna Negra, Paraguay: "We are identified like natives of Paraguay...", "we perpetuate the language of our Bolivian ancestors... and we handle well the language of the Paraguayan guarani which we use when we are in contact with them, when we are between us, we use our guarani traditional..." |
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 Conclusion concerning the Difficulties of the Return |
 Testimony of the rev. Miguel Fritz, apostolic vicar of Pilcomayo, Paraguay.
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 Epilogue |
 The war brought died, pains and tears. There is no hero in this war, but of deaths which are the ex-combatants, forgotten. The words of the end : Natalio Barrientos, Isoso, Bolivia: "We try to be united like our grandparents, and we pay homage to all deaths... which fought for our freedom, in the same way we do not forget to live with our brothers of Paraguay because we constitute only one family". |
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"Iyambae, ser libre" : the Chaco War (1932-1935)
