The geopolitical play of Gustavo Petro Remember what Alberto Fujimori did against Ecuador. The rude manipulation that made the war is detailed in the chronic book and comment of the Cenepa War (PUCP, 2023), by the missing José Antonio García Belaunde. Three decades after the conflict, its instrumentalization for re -election remains a matter of study. Fujimori knew that the conflict with the external enemy helped to galvanize the internal front. And, incidentally, he left the internal enemy off. I also knew that he could not let some general or former minister shine and then be a presidency candidate, as happened with the great Marshal Eloy Ureta, hero of the war against Ecuador of 41, and with Ernesto Montagne, key minister in the conflict with Colombia.
Island for two
Colombia He has an interesting story of maritime differences and border displays. For being the only country in the region with access to the two oceans (Pacific and Atlantic) has had several treaties for their limits and the sovereignty of its islands. It has a long history of messes and differences with Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Haiti and Costa Rica. He has had a war with Ecuador, several conflicts with Venezuela and an unrecoverable trauma for the loss of Panama. Maybe that’s why Gustavo Petro He has signed with an RT the tweet of a social leader: “We have already lost Panama, we gave 75,000 km² of the Caribbean Sea to Nicaragua in 2012, and now we would be at risk of losing navigable access to the Amazon River. The most incredible thing is that by hatred of Petro there are those who celebrate and defend it to Peru. Unacceptable!”
Look: Víctor A. García Belaunde: “Peru gave Colombia to Colombia, we are not going to give him Santa Rosa”
Colombia in The Hague
The most recent Colombian conflict was with Nicaragua. And reached the Court of The Hague, which resolved in 2012. The sentence confirmed the sovereignty of Colombia On the islands of Alburquerque, San Andrés, Providencia, Santa Catalina, Bajo Nuevo, Southeast, Quitasueño, Roncer, Serrana and Serranilla. But it also established a unique maritime border line. The sentence was held by Nicaragua as a victory. The Central American country had nothing to lose. That was knew by Daniel Ortega, the dictator who promoted the ruling. Nicaragua made the extension of the exclusive economic zones reach up to 200 miles measured from their coasts. Colombia He lost 75,000 kilometers in that area. Colombia questioned the ruling, but President Juan Manuel Santos was quite cautious. In 2016, Colombia lost a lawsuit filed again by Nicaragua in 2013 for non -compliance.
Finally, on July 13, 2023, the International Court of Justice of The Hague resolved in favor of Colombia a last litigation (September 2013) with which Nicaragua intended to extend its continental platform beyond the 200 sea miles from its coast. Petro reacted to the ruling high. “Great victory for Colombia in The Hague,” he wrote in X. “The ICJ did not access Nicaragua’s claims about expanding its continental platform.” In practice, the failure kept the status quo. And yet, Petro exploded in excitement. He learned from Fujimori, another authoritarian. And as a good ex -guerrilla it is clear that he learned to use the failure by observing his Nicaraguan pair,
Daniel Ortega.
Make the Gran Colombia Great Again
Petro Not only is the triumph of The Hague against Nicaragua. He has also built a narrative around how he has recovered the territory. And in that speech Peru is the perfect enemy. That explains his recent tweet that says: “Tomorrow, August 7, I will begin the process to claim the southern border of Colombia in Leticia, as I did with the maritime border in San Andrés.” Also the one who sentence that “this government was the one that stopped the loss of the Sea of San Andrés. More one, two centuries of republican life losing territory. And only even this government is that we stop the loss of territory, and insult us from the Colombian press.” And above all the tweet in which he puts an old map and writes: “Thus were the borders of our country when unfortunately the Gran Colombia was dissolved. They judge the lack of patriotism of the oligarchy that allowed a good part of our territory to lose.
Paraphrasing Trump: Make the Gran Colombia Great Again.
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