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In the historic conflict over the territory of Pirara, a region of 33 thousand square kilometers, strategically located for access to the Caribbean Sea, Brazil ended up at a disadvantage compared to the United Kingdom. The dispute, which dates back to the treaty between Portugal and Spain in 1777, is a classic example of the lasting impact of British imperialism in South America.
In a historic conflict over a strategic territory, Brazil faced a major disadvantage in the dispute for Pirara, an area of 33 thousand square kilometers, comparable to the state of Alagoas. This region, important for providing an outlet to the Caribbean Sea via the Essequibo River, was the center of a long dispute between Brazil and the United Kingdom, with the latter having the advantage.
The territory of Pirara, originally under Portuguese and later Brazilian control after independence, saw its sovereignty challenged in the 1830th century. British missionaries, arriving in the XNUMXs, established a significant presence, diminishing Brazilian influence in the region by educating and converting local indigenous people to Christianity. This, combined with Brazil's sparse military presence, has only intensified the UK's territorial claims.
After years of dispute between Brazil and the United Kingdom, the situation was taken to an international arbitration court in 1904, with King Victor Emanuel III of Italy serving as arbitrator.
After years of dispute, the situation was taken to an international arbitration court in 1904, with the King Victor Emmanuel III from Italy serving as referee. Despite a vast presentation of evidence by Brazil, including documents and cartographic letters, the British were favored in the trial.
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They were granted 60% of the disputed territory, which gave them access to the Amazon basin, marking the only time Brazil has lost territory in an international dispute. The suspicion of bias increased when it was discovered that the Italian king had a predisposition against Brazil, possibly influencing the final verdict.
Complexities of international relations that continue to resonate today
The loss of Pirara not only reflects the tensions of the colonial period and the imperialist practices of the British Empire, but also the complexities of international relations that continue to resonate today. Brazil and Venezuela, which was also affected by similar decisions during the Paris arbitration, are still dealing with territorial issues that date back to that time.
This territorial dispute between Brazil and the United Kingdom illustrates the difficulties faced by Brazil in protect your interests against established colonial powers, highlighting the importance of robust and vigilant diplomacy in international affairs.
It was actually good to lose, because politically less photo only pt
It wasn't good, that region is also rich and it's the same case as the Malvinas Islands in Argentina
Wow ignorance. He is the type of person who understands nothing about sovereignty, arbitration, impartiality. really rude person
It would be good if you lost the right to speak ****. Brazil, the United Kingdom and all humans here would gain from your ignorance.
When God was distributing stupidity, your lordship got in line twice!💩💩💩
He's definitely one of the **** who defends ****!
Lucky for those who live there, they were freed from being governed by the PT gang, and its leader, the drunkard.
“Well, I'm only Brazilian because of Bolsonaro.”
As a Brazilian, I would be happy if this injustice with Brazil and Venezuela was reversed, but I am of the opinion that nothing is worth the price of peace between neighbors
Venezuela what boy…
Here comes the fifth column to defend the empire, the **** and from Europe take over the territory of Brazil and Venezuela and the **** insults Venezuela
Good geography and history lesson. Brazil has to fight to recover this territory. The British occupation is illegal.
Yes, I agree, the text is explained in great detail, but I disagree about the possession of these territories, because the English will certainly take better care of it than Brazil; even if it was in economic prime. The occupation is actually illegal; But for whom does the bell toll?
Hopes may be remote judging by the pro-European treaties, only if Brazil overturns or annuls the veto of this execrable bureaucracy.
Isaque Viana: if you think that the English take better care of things in Brazil, then you should live in Europe/England; and not in Brazil. To be one you need to be truly Brazilian.
Brazil cannot take care of the territory it already has. In several regions, people suffer from abandonment and corruption.
I completely agree.
And why don't the English want an area affected by poverty, etc.? Do you want a strategic territory? What do you think England and Portugal have all that wealth based on?
A place to escape the approaching war, which could be nuclear, obviously.
And they will certainly build a bunker for the kings.
Riches usurped from former colonies.
Travel abroad and witness that nothing is different outside of here. Speak from what you see and not from what you read or hear. I won't give a name, but go to some European countries and see what abandonment is.
Is slavery better??
I completely agree
That's a lie. Brazil does take care of our territory. These arbitrations are full of defects (of all kinds).
It would be good for them to study history.
Brazil does not take care of its people. The country is dominated by corruption and you see the complaints from the last elections. We are living in a mess. Where do you live in Narnia?
The opposite is true, once the Brazilian lands, he does not take care of Brazil.
Have you ever lived in a favela????
Politicians here only look out for their own pockets, everything has ulterior motives.
Said everything!! My opinion too!!
It really turns into a can.
That's right………..
IT IS UNDENIABLE that over the last 30 years the government has been negligent with sovereignty and issues of national interest, as well as the security of the State and society. So I understand that instead of getting involved in fighting over an old issue like the Pirara region, it should act (and it is late) to protect the current boundaries and the wealth within what is already delimited. Now, are NGOs weakening our sovereignty? Charge the NGOs; Are smugglers and foreigners harming our sovereignty? Charge them! Are factions undermining the State? Charge them! Decades of contributing to the advance of crime and suffocating the State... This is one of the factors that give expansionists the strength to advance against Brazil. Brazil knows who covets and who acts; what does it do? How are Brazil's intelligence forces used? State mechanisms should not be used against those who help the country grow and fulfill their duties; But rather against those who threaten peace, order, sovereignty and the Nation-State itself.
You are absolutely right. What idiot would maintain sovereignty without defending himself? I guarantee that if it were China, I doubt that England would want it. In 1997, the British returned China's sovereignty over Hong Kong, why? I'm not even going to answer. As long as we have Brazilians who watch Big Brother and believe that everything is peace and love, we will lose territories. In order for a country to be sovereign, it HAS TO ARM ITSELF, something we haven't done for a long time.
If I could, I would get out of this country. The boy is right
If you drop out, you won't be missed. If you can't, it's because you're in the best place for vice.
I live in London, there are more beggars here than in Brazil, here there are more robberies than in Brazil, here the police don't do anything if they steal a cell phone, here they get beaten by the **** because they don't even have weapons, Brazil is a first world country, the only thing better here is the currency, which is more valued, even so there is hunger and poverty, not to mention that there are many people with rotten teeth, this being young people and adults, sad reality.
Where in London do you live? What is your profession there? Is there with “S”, robbery with “L”?
I think you're fake.
Pure truth, the English hide the reality of the country, a lot of poverty on the outskirts
And what he's doing there, he comes to Brazil.
It's because he forgot how to dialect Portuguese BZ
It's sticking your thumb in your ass.
London changed then, and how! Comparing Brazil, a country of **** and criminals, a stronghold of ****, who vote for a President even knowing that he is ****, **** and ****, with England or with any country in the world, it is difficult to accept this.
And there are some fanatics who idolize president ****…
You were the ones who got scammed, PT supporters are starving, they voted for a **** with the promise of eating steak and beer, today they are eating nothing
True, Brazil has a primary deficit that only increases every day, a president without the support of the people, cutting funds for health and education, without coordination with Congress, increasing taxes and more taxes, mercy!!
So get out of there and come to Brazil. If that's how it is.
My God, you live in London and you don't even know the Brazilian language, you write everything wrong.
You don't know how to write, you must live in Bahia, a state with a high illiteracy rate, consequences of 20 years of PT
The mutt complex weakens us and disunites us, human beings are the same, regardless of the country they live in. In this disunity, we are not prepared to defend ourselves, but we will lose to ourselves, our worst enemy. Will we drown in cachaça? Change Brazil. Those who want to go, those who don't want to give up. Dopamine.
I am of the following opinion. If the USA invades Brazil and gives freedom to our people. I will be on the US side. Likewise, the region in dispute.
You are more and to be shameless!
Research a little about the freedom and democracy that the USA brought to Iran, Iraq, etc., and then you will see that their attempt to bring democracy was just a desire to enrich the nation itself by taking advantage of natural resources and exploiting its resources, they broke Venezuela so that it would not have competition and don't go past them and take them more easily, the same thing happened in other countries that they took, do you think the USA here will do any good for the Brazilian people???
This happened in Afghanistan
Unacceptable, you slave spirit! Brazilians must yearn for freedom, but be the PROTAGONIST of their history and sovereignty, and not delegate something so important to another nation.
Stop being such a gringo, boy! Be ashamed of yourself!
Huahuahua. Invade and GIVE FREEDOM! There are things that no one can give you. Especially invading your country.
You're one of those mutts who wags his tail at any **** who gives him an old bone. Have you ever seen an American give freedom to anyone? Not even to their own people anymore. You were born to be a butler's shoe shiner...
Who among you will take the shot??? Blah blah blah is not popcorn. It doesn't solve anything.
You're the type who sold your soul to suck up to Europeans. Be a true patriot, but not a patriot.
I agree with you in number and degree, Isaac. You don't need to go live in Europe to see the existential reality of this irresponsible country, which is ours. England has and always has taken care of what is its own. If the Amazon were English, it wouldn't be going through the suffering it is in. In fact, I didn't know about this dispute between the English and Brazilians over this strip of land; these are stories that history doesn't tell us.
Europe has no animosity towards Brazil, only globalized rubbish comes here, we have never benefited, just pay attention to the UN council, Brazil makes its entrance, and they play dead in the face of Brazilian demands, imperialism is noticed in everyone as supreme untouchable, acting in his own cause, acting in his own cause.
The world belongs to the rich, Brazil belongs to the ****, the oil is ours, Petrobras belongs to the ****, what do you want my friend? While our people have no education, the English have the best education in the world.
This is regrettable, let's continue to vote for these ****, we continue to be ****.
more than what will Brazil do at the UN if only those who are in charge and 5 the rest only bark when they return from abroad
It's our president's fault, just like this one …….. who is there.
Live in England and pay dividends to the monarchy lol
IF the Amazon were English it wouldn't even exist anymore. They would have torn everything down by now.
It doesn't matter the Brazilian territory and that's it
Politics and education resolve this easily, the opportunity to unify in favor of the development of the people in that region. See how Spain does with Gibraltar, it is English domain, but occupied by the Spanish, including commercially.
Ass-licker of the British Crown. The bloodiest in history!
If the English took good care of themselves, they wouldn't have destroyed their own forests where they live. Now they want to destroy ours. We have to fight for our sovereignty, not be cowards and let them set up and steal from our people as they have always done. We don't need their religion and religious conversion. We need the Amazon as it has always been... Letting the **** invaders do whatever they want is not peace, it is being cowardly. I am willing to fight for the sovereignty of my land and to protect our indigenous Brazilian people. May the war for freedom and honor to our sovereignty, independence or death come soon.
Good rhetorical juggling to defend the British. If you studied a little history, you would understand how negatively this British thirst for territories has impacted the entire world. All wars and disputes have their origins in this royal greed and they always stand out because they find an echo in people like you. How unfortunate!
Look at Guyana and see if the English took good care of that part there. Poverty, misery, even worse than Venezuela.
All colonies conquered by their colonizers serve as a tactic in case of invasion of other peoples, there are few times when they take care of the invaded people, this ideology is medieval, take everything and give it to our people!!
Go to London and see how the English take better care of things in Brazil.
Brazil has already shown itself incapable of taking care of its immense territory, without these 33.000 km, with part of its population hungry, another part without education, and the majority ignorant, which could not be contradicted, Brazil is so much the owner of this territory that the vast majority of the population doesn't even know that it exists, and that it once belonged to Br, leave it alone because in M... the more it moves, the more it stinks
Brazil must make its states independent, where each one has the autonomy to take care of their own and punish the corrupt and their favored people with iron punishment. Cutting off our own flesh, if necessary, and perhaps we will still be able to stop being an eternal global colony.
Go and fight with your whaleboat.
The British are receiving classes from the MST. If the owner doesn't occupy it, someone else will.
You and PT party of ****
I think so too, but you can't say that to Bolsonaro supporters, because they hope Brazil loses and call themselves patriots.
That's it, let's talk to our president, he'll get tough and our armed forces will fight. Wow, glory, our army defending our country. I can already see victory. In fact, Vitória lives nearby.
Really... once a colony, always a colony... and the Italian king even pretended to be forgotten due to the high immigration of Italians to Brazil at the time...
King son of a bitch! Obviously he was going to suck up to his European friend! Marmalade **** and cowardice in false arbitration…
Has love returned? And now we are in the hands of whoever pays the most again, or is it a **** from the government “****”?
I give my opinion that due to the size of Brazil, it is not worth fighting for this crumb because then we would be greedy.
You read it, you didn't understand anything.
Normally, I don't waste my time with meaningless and irrational conversations! But I think it's worth reflecting on the subject, which leads me to draw everyone's attention to the lack of citizenship and civic feeling among the Brazilian population, which is easily manipulated! Learning to be citizens costs nothing, and waking up to the reality of the facts and participating in the life of the country also costs nothing! What our country lacks is a people who take care of their land, something that few people are interested in doing through awareness! So the reality is there for everyone to see and feel, we have always lived with government mismanagement! That trendy jargon from the Cold War era, that they use about the left and the right, is nonsense from idiots! In fact, what we should do is face the reality of the facts; are we doing anything concrete to improve our country? No! Discussing the reconquest of territories is out of the question at this time. There are more important things to be discussed, which is changing the mentality of subservient and slave-like people to civic citizens. We will only achieve this if the people want it and are interested. If not, we will be an eternal mass of complacent maneuvers! Brazil is a great natural power and sovereign by nature. The only ones who don't know this are the pseudo-governors who insist on pretending to govern, and the people are fooled and pretend to believe and support us! Poor Brazil!
ELECTIONS WITH HONEST VOTE COLLATION THE ELITE DOES NOT AIM FOR. WITHOUT PURPOSE WE ARE OUT OF ANY DISCUSSION!!!
You stupid Zé! The issue here is a fight over territorial possession, a fight over land, over city. It's not a vote count discussion, no! You're so smart, aren't you?
Good vision that opens new paths. Rebellions must be carried out with political actions and not with weapons, especially if we know the size of the Giant. However, political strategies can be used. Market dominance already harms Brazil and benefits privileged mercenaries. It hinders the development of Brazilians on the path to social growth and financial independence.
This world is not a fantasy. Sovereignty and weapons are necessary. A country like ours is very poor but unfortunately we do not give it the value it deserves, one day we will be invaded.
Perfect text, we must first have education without fanaticism, discuss the future of a nation, which bleeds every day at the hands of unscrupulous politicians, love this wonderful country, a nation is strong when it has strong men, strong leaders and the wisdom of a united people.
Worse still, the people are so ignorant that many of the countries mentioned in the questions are made up of people who had the government they deserved. They let it get to the point of losing their sovereignty because they are countries of a people who did not have politicians to protect their people because of their own interests in illicit enrichment. That is what is happening here with a lot of CORRUPTION and the growing drug trafficking. What is worse, Brazilians are killing themselves. A bad government that has put it in the heads of some people that peace and love will solve the problems. On Labor Day, no one protests, no one goes out on the streets for political change... And in a few years we will indeed be invaded.
We will learn to value ourselves this way or we will continue to be a colony.
I hope your bitterness is defeated.
This is the **** selling everything, the Amazon to a communist consortium, he said he will have to return land to Uruguay, now this…
Every **** is ****, including the current president. They are maintained by the mortadella donkey, including many who are present here. **** !!!!!!
Even on this subject the mujido above appears. @Help.