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==== First Colombian-Peruvian War ====

 

Throughout the 1880's and 1890's the Colombian Liberals remained in control of federal government through creating and exploiting a political machine based on the spoils system in the coastal cities of Cundinamarca and Venezuela. After a small border skirmish on the Peruvian-Colombian border left two Colombian soldiers dead, the out of power Conservatives made a ploy to whip up Nationalist fervor and retake the Quito territory and hopefully regain political control from the Liberals. In the Colombian election of 1889, the Conservatives won a major political victory and after a few months of tension declared war on Peru in January of 1890.