Cáceres y el Contrato Grace: sus motivaciones

• Autor: Pereyra Plasencia, Hugo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2016
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/14551
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/revistaira/article/view/14551
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Grace Contract; Foreign debt; Ancón Treaty; Tacna and Arica; Manuel González Prada; Andrés A.Cáceres; Contrato Grace; Deuda externa; Tratado de Ancón; Andrés A. Cáceres

The Grace Contract, signed in 1888 between the government of President Andrés A. Cáceres and a British bondholders club of Peru’s foreign debt,was presented by its contemporary critics both as an instrument against na-tional interests and a corrupt transaction. This article makes a critical ap-preciation of both assessments. Based on documents from that period, thisarticle argues that, in promoting the Grace Contract, Cáceres was motivated, to a significant extent, by the need to obtain resources to pay a compensationof ten million pesos to Chile under the Ancón Treaty, in case Peru won theTacna and Arica plebiscite envisaged for 1894.