Minefields and humanitarian Demining at the Chile-Bolivia Border: A Step-by-Step Approach
The border is a place of encounter for geopolitical and literary accounts as well as historio-graphical and anthropological ones, but also is, like the doors guarded by the godjanus,a location where the dichotomy between control and integration—the paradox of global-ization—is apparent.all this may...
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El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
2015
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Sumario: | The border is a place of encounter for geopolitical and literary accounts as well as historio-graphical and anthropological ones, but also is, like the doors guarded by the godjanus,a location where the dichotomy between control and integration—the paradox of global-ization—is apparent.all this may allow an informal measurement of relations betweenneighbors. This article will discuss the implementation, over 30 years, of border controls atthechilean-Bolivian frontier through the deployment of one of the most aggressive policiesseen inteichopolitics: mine-laying that resulted in a virtual wall between both countries.Finally, the reasons that ledchile in recent years to remove mines and reduce its control ofthe border will be analyzed |
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