This article is about a transnational region in South America. For the region within Brazil, see ABC Region. For similarly named localities elsewhere, see ABC#Places.
The ABC countries, or ABC powers, are the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, seen as the three most powerful, influential and wealthiest countries in South America. The term was mostly used in the beginning the first half of the 20th century, when they worked together to develop common interests and a coordinated approach to issues in the region with relatively little influence from outside powers.
In 1942 the ABC countries, with the United States, mediated in the peace terms of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War. This led to the loss of all disputed territory in the Amazon Basin that had been claimed by Ecuador before the war.[2]
Hélène Veber: ABC Pact (Alliance between Argentina, Brazil and Chile), In: 1914–1918 Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War
January 01, 1970
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