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The Paquisha War was a brief military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts.

Since the 1990s, Ecuadoran foreign policy has been focused on the country's border dispute with Peru, an issue that has festered since independence.

The boundary dispute led to the Cenepa War between Ecuador and Peru in early 1995 ; after a peace agreement brokered by the four Guarantors of the Rio Protocol ( Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States ), the Military Observers Mission to Ecuador-Peru ( MOMEP ) was set up to monitor the zone.