Un Estado al servicio de privados
Bolivia, Aniceto Arce y el ferrocarril de la Compañía Huanchaca (1878-1892)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5599734 |
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| Authors | Carlos Donoso Rojas (0000-0003-0154-6446, University of Tarapacá, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Pages | e6630 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Estudios Atacameños Arqueología y antropología surandinas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0716-0925 • E-ISSN: 0718-1043 |
| Publisher | Universidad Catolica del Norte - Chile (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22199/issn.0718-1043-6630 |
| OpenAlex | W4415440116 |
| Language | ES |
| References cited | 4 |
This article examines the complex interaction between the Bolivian state and the private sector in the process of building the railway between the Huanchaca mining district and Antofagasta, from its projection in 1878 to the start of operations in 1892. During this period, a broad consensus regarding the importance of railway infrastructure as a crucial element for progress was confronted with the goernment's inefficiency in this area and with growing criticism of Aniceto Arce, promoter of the project and larger shareholder of the Huanchaca Company of Bolivia. Questioned for his closeness to prominent public figures in Chile before and during the War of the Pacific, the assumptions about the true objectives of the railway revealed the tight alliance between economic interests and political power in Bolivia, in the face of a weakened institutional framework due to the lack of a state project
Alliance · Criticism · Inefficiency · Politics · Historical Studies in Latin America · Historical Studies on Spain · History and Politics in Latin America
| Highly cited | No |
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