Chaco boliviano

Regularly, Argentina's and UK's philatelic people comment the Falklands/Malvinas war that these two countries continue with stamps : either malvinos fishs on Argentinan stamps, or military commemorations on both sides.

In the 1920's and 1930's, collectors of new stamps did certainly watch the same cartographic propagandist issues between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Northern Chaco. Their revendications ended in a war that Bolivia lost.

Cause of the conflict : they might be oil under this Chaco... all wrong.


Stamps remain like this Bolivian example of the 1935 series.

In the number 5 of Opus, European Academy of Philately's review dates 2005, an article by Guy Coutant told this philatelic war : "La guerre du Chaco : 150 000 morts à cause de timbres". But, since the Academy website has not been updates for long months, it is difficult to have more intels about it.