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==== Italian Immigration to Colombia ====
From the 1890s to
These changes led to a massive labor deficiency and a new need for foreign workers, mostly filled through a massive immigration wave from the Italian states after the 1903 Latial Famine and the [[Venice#Invasion of the Papal Adriatic (1908), and the Alps against Austria (1911-1912)|1908 Venetian Invasion of the Papal States]]. Additionally, thousands of Sicilian immigrants left for Colombia in the early 1900s to escape poverty and the corrupt semi-serfdom-based economic system of the Kingdom of Sicily. While these immigrants left a significant positive cultural mark on the Republic of Colombia, one major issue that arose in this period was the creation of the long-standing Colombia Mafia's dominated by organizations with ties to the Cosa Nostra.
==== Second Colombian-Peruvian War ====
In 1917, Peru, suffering from widespread unemployment and economic troubles stemming from
At the time, Colombia was suffering from economic troubles and a series of political strikes. On July 10, 1917, a surprise attack on Colombian airfields started the war with Colombia on the backfoot. Throughout 1917, Colombia lost ground in the Amazon and the much sought over Quito province. By 1918 though, Colombia was able to stop the Peruvian-Equadorian advances, mobilizing its new industrial center and securing nominal support from the British (who were worried of the war's precedent; themselves owning rubber producing land in Guiana). Additionally, in the Fall of 1918, the Chilean Revolt started in southern Peru, to which the British and Colombian supplied weapons and resources. By the end of the year, Colombia was able to retake Quito province, and at that point, the war became a drawn-out excursion mostly fought in the Amazons. In May 1919, Equador, suffering a manpower shortage, sued for peace, and in that following July, Peru signed an armistice (themselves dealing with large-scale revolts in Chile and the Chaco). On November 5, 1919, Colombia, Equador, and Peru signed the Treaty of Leonabelle (mediated by the United Kingdom), in which Peru relinquished all claims to Quito and recognized the independence of Chile. The borders of the Amazon were also agreed upon, formalizing the cession of land occupied by Colombia during the war.
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