Resumen

LIJERON CASANOVAS, Arnaldo. Feat of the beni in the War of the Chaco. (80Th anniversary of Cese fire in the War with Paraguay). Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2015, vol.9, n.38, pp. 7-21. ISSN 1997-4485.

The Bolivian historiography -with a andean slant- nothing says of the efforts of the Beni in the defense of the sovereignty and hydrocarbons of the country, during the War of the Chaco. However Andean and Santa Cruz voices denied the presence of the beniano soldier in the burning sandy grounds of the Southeast or says that they arrived later at the theater of war. This work demonstrates all the opposite. One leans in data of the first benianos contingents that marched spontaneously to trenches, as soon as the bugler of the Mother country roared, although one of these initial mobilizations had been a failure by the mistaken route: the eastern mountain. But mainly, it is nourished in the objective and brutal testimony of that other beniana legend that give birth the Chaco: Carmelo Cuéllar Jiménez. All make notice that from the new mobilizations that went arriving at the Chaco in February of 1934, the benianos contingents support to the active army and turned out decisive to recover territories that already were in Paraguayan hands.

Palabras llave : Spontaneous mobilization of benianos contingents; The route of the Eastern mountain range to the Chaco; Fortification of the Army.