An historical event in my country that had a major effect

          There are a lot of important historical events that happened in Bolivia and had a major effect on the country since the Independence from the Colony in 1825. For me, one of the most important events is the Pacific War that we lost against Chile.
          The first reason is that we lost a big peace of land which contained Guano and Salitre, which are natural resources with a high price in the market of that time. The selling of those resources would have been very important for the economy. In fact, Chile invaded Bolivia and the war started because of this.
          Second, by losing the War, Bolivia gave the impression to all the other countries that it was weak and also vulnerable in the frontiers. Moreover, several countries started to invade us and generated other wars. For instance, Brazil and Paraguay took away other regions from us