Abstract

COLAS, Pol. Competing Strategies for the Control of Guano and Cinchona bark in Bolivia. Secuencia [online]. 2023, n.115, e1922.  Epub Mar 17, 2023. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i115.1922.

In this article, my aim is to analyze the different strategies adopted by both José Ballivián’s administration (1841-1847) and the local ruling groups in the face of guano and cinchona bark economic booms in Bolivia, in a comparative way. The legal corpus created by the central State, the contracts signed with foreign companies for exportation of that resources and the responses articulated by the local powers, smuggling being the most prominent, are exposed. I consider that the signing of monopolistic contracts was rejected by a part of the local population, that through illegality proposed another politic and economic model for the exploitation of guano and cinchona bark and, in fact, exposed the existence of other ways of State building in nineteenth-century Latin America.

Keywords : State; institutionalization; local; smuggling; border.

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