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Coding changes: Start Date changed from May 1858.
MID#2127
Dispute Number: 2127
Date(s): August 1891 to September 1891
Participants: 135 Peru/130 Ecuador
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: While the boundary dispute between Peru and Ecuador was under arbitra-
tion by the King of Spain, the two former colonies also pursued independent negotia-
tions. What would come to be known as the Garcia-Herrera Treaty came out of these
negotiations in early 1890. This treaty gave Ecuador the northern Amazon tributaries,
with the exception of the lower Napo River. In August 1891, however, a Peruvian
military commander admitted to a newspaper that he had dispatched armed forces
into the Rio Napo. Peru charged that on the Napo, its offices had found a total number
of 398 people who identified with Peru, not Ecuador. In September 1891, Ecuador
protested Peruvian activities on the Maranon that Ecuador believed violated the treaty
of 1890, and took issue with the duties Iquito placed on Ecuadorian rubber moving
through the area. The problem was that no congressional action in Peru had taken
place on the Garcia-Hererra Treaty, and while Peru stood firm on the exploration of
its own lands, it conceded that articles coming out of Ecuador would cease to have
levies put on them from here on out.
Coding changes: End Date changed from August 1891.
MID#1596
Dispute Number: 1596
Date(s): September 1893 to January 23, 1894
Participants: 135 Peru/130 Ecuador
Outcome (and Settlement): Released (Negotiated)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: In September 1893, Peruvian forces from Iquitos seized the Ecuador-
ian provincial governor of the Oriente province at his home in Curaray. Ecuador
protested against this seizure in November, and an Ecuadorian military outfit held
demonstrations in Guayaquil. On December 6, the Ecuadorian military was declared
“in campaign.” An agreement that pledged mutual forgiveness was accepted by both
countries on January 23, 1894, but Ecuador’s president maintained to his Congress
that the border question with Peru was still unresolved.
Coding changes: Outcome changed from Released. Settlement changed from None.
MID#1145
Dispute Number: 1145
Date(s): December 1901 to October 23, 1904
Participants: 135 Peru/130 Ecuador