Abstract
Wars have ended in Latin America since 1850 in various ways. Until 1948 most of them ended on the victors' terms. Before the establishment of the Pan-American Union in 1889, the victors' terms received no international sanction; the three significant conflicts between 1932 and 1942—the Chaco, Leticia, and the Marañón—were concluded by military triumphs by Paraguay, Colombia, and Peru, but in all three instances internationally mediated settlements cloaked the military decisions in decent guise.
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