La paz según el Perú – La paz según los chilenos (Peace According to Peru, Peace According to the Chileans)
A Lima woodcut splits 'peace' in two: on the left a Peruvian soldier with a flag stands by a cannon and shot, on the right a Chilean soldier in a boat marked ENCALADA unrolls a long scroll headed by squadron, cannons, rifles, powder, saltpetre, guano, gold and silver. The tell is the enumerated list, which presents the opposing side's peace terms as nothing but a catalogue of seizures.
- Date
- June 12, 1880
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- El Banquillo (Lima satirical weekly), year 1, no. 9, p. 68
- Region
- Latin America
- Country
- Peru
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Pierola Government
- Leader
- Nicolás de Piérola
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- War of the Pacific
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published in Lima 1880, before 1931; PD-Mark per Wikimedia Commons)
El Banquillo (Lima), año I, no. 9, 12 June 1880, p. 68, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
EL BANQUILLO. La Paz según el Perú. La Paz según los Chilenos. ENCALADA ESCUADRA CAÑONES RIFLES PÓLVORA Salitre Guano ORO Plata Co[illegible] [remaining words on the scroll illegible]
THE LITTLE BENCH. Peace according to Peru. Peace according to the Chileans. ENCALADA SQUADRON CANNONS RIFLES POWDER Saltpetre Guano GOLD Silver Co[illegible] [remaining words on the scroll illegible]
The scroll's last visible word begins 'Co' and the words past it are too small to read at the hosted size. The literal meaning of 'banquillo' is 'little bench' (also the defendant's bench); the masthead is the periodical's title.
