La guerra del Chaco desatada entre Bolivia y Paraguay 1935

The Chaco War. Map with drawing indicating the Republic of Paraguay. Facade with the Palace of the Lopez (government house). Monument for the declaration of independence and founding of Asuncion (8/15/1536). Military personnel walking inside the premises belonging to the military school. Building facade with the Paraguayan flag. EMC building facade with military. Image of the city of Asuncion with buildings, streets and settlers. Mobilization of vehicles with soldiers on the road. Soldiers setting up a mortar shell. Soldiers arming the grenades. Battalion of reservists march to embark towards the Chaco. Soldiers arrive at enemy positions. Image of the fighting in the bush. People in the streets of the city with protests, demonstrations of repudiation and police repression. Soldiers marching through city streets. Soldiers fighting in the field with rifles. Artillery fights. Soldier shooting machine gun. Soldiers in a trench. Colonel Francisco Brizuela operating from the Paraguayan command. Bolivian prisoners captured by the Paraguayan army marching through a village street and grouped on the river coast. Military leader arriving at a building and received by the Army staff. Corpses and skeletons of soldiers killed in combat and abandoned in the bush. Burial of Paraguayan soldiers. Ceremony officiated by chaplain of the Paraguayan army. Paraguayan soldiers embarked in port. Image of the gunboat Paraguay. Civil authorities gathered in port and then arriving at a building.
Date: 1935
Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds
Code: DV-01376

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