Blog number 3

This week I thought it would be a good idea to talk about something that I still don't understand from Stark's part of the class. That is, I still do not understand why Chile cared that Peru and Bolivia united. Lucas asked in class, but I did not understand Stark's reference to Indiana and Ohio, and I don't think that Mitch's example about Toledo and the upper peninsula relates to the issue. To me the issue is that Chile was jealous that a struggling nation was trying to help itself by joining up with another nation. The Toledo issue is that Ohio wanted Toledo from Michigan, which directly affected Michigan, so that doesn't really apply here. Meanwhile, the Indiana example just doesn't seem like it would matter to me. It simply appears to me to be one nation being upset that another nation is trying to save itself and bring itself out of debt. Why is Chile set on holding down Peru?