Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2015
The Regional Security provisions of the Rio Treaty of Mutual Assistance dealing with individual and collective defense, along with the structural and juridical reorganization of the inter-American system of Bogotá in 1948, constitute to a certain degree a return to Bolivarian political concepts of a Hispanic-American union or confederation. This was the dominant theme and leitmotiv of inter-American relations from 1830 to 1865. It is our purpose in this present study to present the attitude and position of Chile towards these expressions of hemisphere solidarity during this period of the mid-nineteenth century.
See the present writer’s previous article “Chile and Hispanic-American Solidarity, 1810–1830,” published in THE AMERICAS, VII (April, 1951), 463–474, for a study of the earlier period.
1 Encina, Francisco Antonio, Historia de Chile (20 vols.; Santiago, 1940–1952), vol. X, pp. 588–589.Google Scholar
2 Arana, Diego Barros, Historia jeneral de Chile (16 vols.; Santiago, 1884–1902), vol. XV, p. 92.Google Scholar
3 Cited by Arana, Barros, op. cit., vol. XV, p. 93.Google Scholar
4 Sesiones de los cuerpos legislativos de Chile, 1811–1845 (Santiago, 1846), vol. XII, p. 178.
5 Cited by Barros Arana, op. cit., vol. XVI, p. 195.
6 Ossa, Alberto Cruchaga, Jurisprudencia de la Cancillería Chilena (Santiago, 1935), Hamm-Bello, August 1, 1833.Google Scholar
7 Documentos Parlamentarios, Mensaje Presidencial, 1832.
8 Ibid., Mensaje Presidencial, 1833.
9 Cruchaga Ossa, op. cit., Tocornal to Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 17, 1834.
10 Ibid.
11 Encina, op. cit., vol. X, p. 596.
12 Valdés, Ramón Sotomayor, Historia de Chile bajo el gobierno del general don Joaquín Prieto (4 vols.; Santiago, 1903), vol. Il, pp. 253–254.Google Scholar
13 Carcovich, Luis, “La Política Internacional de Portales,” Boletín de la Academia Chilena de Historia, VIII (1937), 111–112.Google Scholar
14 Valdés, Sotomayor, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 363–364.Google Scholar
15 Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Santiago, Correspondencia del Encargado de Negocios en Buenos Aires, 1836–1838, Portales to Pérez, Chilean Chargé d’Affairs in Buenos Aires.
16 Sotomayor Valdés, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 394–39S.
17 Documentos Parlamentarios, Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1841.
18 Ibid., Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1843.
19 Ibid., Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1844.
20 Vial to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, February 5, 1847, cited in Ulloa, Alberto, Congresos Americanos de Lima (Lima, 1938), document 32, p. 67.Google Scholar
21 Ibid., document 89, p. 193.
22 Arana, Diego Barros, Un Decenio de la Historia de Chile (2 vols.; Santiago, 1906), vol. II, pp. 223–225.Google Scholar
23 Encina, op. cit., vol. XII, p. 627.
24 Documentos Parlamentarios, Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1848.
25 Ibid., Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1849.
26 Ibid., Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1852.
27 Ibid., Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1855.
28 Ibid., Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1856.
29 Text in Ulloa, op. cit., pp. 613–614.
30 Documentos Parlamentarios, Memoria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1861.
31 Cruchaga Ossa, op. cit., Tocornal to the Chilean Chargé d’Affairs in Mexico, September 30, 1863.
32 Tocornal to the Peruvian Chancellery, February 18, 1864, cited in Ulloa, op. cit., document 139, p. 369.
33 Ibid.
34 Cruchaga Ossa, op. cit., Circular Letter of Tocornal to Foreign Ministers of the American Republics, May 4, 1864.
35 Edwards, Agustín, Cuatro Presidentes de Chile (Valparaiso, 1932), pp. 265–266.Google Scholar
36 Ulloa, op. cit., document 173, annex B, p. 441.
37 This note is cited by Miguel Varas Velasquez in La Revista Chilena, March-April, 1928.
38 Cited in Solar, Miguel Luis Amunátegui, La Vida de don Andrés Bello (Santiago, 1882), pp. 376–378.Google Scholar
39 Cited in Edwards, op. cit., p. 301.
40 Ibid.
41 Varas to Montt, December 1, 1864, cited in La Revista Chilena, loc. cit.