So as to be successful in this task, Joaquín Godoy was appointed as the Chilean plenipotentiary in Ecuador whose mission was focused on trying to persuade Veintemilla's government to join Chile in a military alliance against Bolivia and Peru. It would be useful for their territorial aspirations which had been dragging on from 1830 and which had not been solved yet.
Para lograr éxito en la tarea, se destinó a Joaquín Godoy como plenipotenciario chileno en Ecuador, cuya misión se concentraba en tratar de persuadir al gobierno de Veintemilla, que sumarse a Chile en una alianza militar en contra de Bolivia y Perú, sería útil a sus pretensiones territoriales, que se arrastraban desde 1830 y que no se resolvían todavía.