Martín Alonso Pinzón, un olvido injusto

El 1 de septiembre de 1932 como parte de una avarienta expansión geopolítica dirigida desde Lima por el presidente Luis María Sánchez Cerro, un grupo de militares y civiles peruanos, depuso a las autoridades legítimas de la ciudad de Leticia en Colombia y aseguró que su país era propietario del trapecio amazónico, en la frontera binacional. La agresiva incursión peruana generó un conflicto armado en el que las tropas colombianas desalojaron a las fuerzas invasoras y en 1934, los dos países firmaron un pacto de paz en Río de Janeiro. En esta obra, Carlos Arango Vélez, quien ocupó ...

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