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... from sequestered property, whether filed by the original owners or more likely by their Chilean-born heirs. confiscation sequestration debt consolidation peace treaties émigrés ...

... to independence, the 1853 consolidation of the internal debt secured the inheritances of elite families. Comprehensive regulations of military pensions, which reinstated the requirement of state approval for marriages and their restriction to higher-ranking officers, reversed expansions of eligibility from...

... presidents after 1830 prioritized consolidating the national debt and regularizing diplomatic relations with Spain, in order to encourage economic investment and development. Both efforts depended upon resolving disputes over sequestered assets; only in 1853 was a definitive law passed that recognized...

... to be auctioned off. The land sales were intended to reduce the state’s debt obligations, and by the end of the Melgarejo period, some 1.25 million pesos worth of land had been sold to expanding hacienda, mining, and speculative interests, in many cases closely linked to Melgarejo. Amid the chaos and uncertainty...

... internal trade. Aramayo was an audacious entrepreneur, and his risky investments left him at the end of his life, in Paris, with more debt than fortune, although his offspring would maintain the family’s prominence in the mining industry. On seizing state power in 1864, General Mariano Melgarejo...