Chat in Poptún

Poptún is a municipality in the department of Petén, in the Republic of Guatemala. It is the second most populated municipality in the department and has a border with Belize. The climate is tropical, between 25°C and 30°C most of the year. Since 1989, Military Zone 23 in Poptún has been the base of the elite group «kaibiles», the special operations force of the Guatemalan Army. The municipality has a runway for light aircraft and south of it is the Ixobel Estate, with caves that constitute a tourist attraction.

The area occupied by the modern state of Belize, bordering with Poptún, was never occupied by Spain because of the inhospitable terrain and its remoteness, although some exploratory expeditions were carried out in the sixteenth century on which they relied to claim the area as their own. In the eighteenth century, Belize was the main point of contraband in Central America, although later the English recognized the Spanish sovereignty of the region through the treaties of 1783 and 1786. After the Independence of Central America, Petén was a district dependent on department of Verapaz, while the State of Guatemala inherited Spain's argument to reclaim the Belizean territory, the British established small settlements on the Belizean coast since the mid-seventeenth century, which they used as bases for buccaneers, logging and commercial smuggling to Central America.

At that time, British trading houses settled in Belize and began prosperous trade routes with the Caribbean ports of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, after the expulsion of the members of the conservative party of Guatemala in 1829 by the invading forces of the liberal general Francisco Morazán the situation in Guatemala was constant wars and invasions, which led to Soconusco separated from the country and the State of Los Altos to try. The figure of General Rafael Carrera emerged and managed to pacify the country in 1851. By that time, the Caste War began in Yucatan, an indigenous uprising that left thousands of European settlers killed, and the Belizean and Petenero representatives were put on alert not only because the Yucatecan refugees were fleeing to Peten and Belize, but it was feared that Carrera, given his strong alliance with the Guatemalan Indians, would propitiate the indigenous revolutions in Central America, but the matter did not happen, and Guatemala entered. In a phase of peace and prosperity from 1851.

The border of Poptún with Belize was delimited by means of the treaty Wyke-Aycinena established between the government of General Rafael Carrera by means of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pedro de Aycinena on 30 April 1859. At that time, Guatemala maintained cordial relations with the British crown and when the threat of William Walker was presented again in Central America in 1859, the British provided arms to the Guatemalan government to confront it, in exchange for which the Carrera regime had to cede the territory of Belize to the British Empire, which already had a commercial center and contraband on the coast of This treaty has since been reported in Guatemala as the biggest mistake of Rafael Carrera's conservative government.

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