In 2012, the international Court of Justice defined the sovereignty of Colombia over the islands and keys of the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, but also that of Nicaragua over a portion of the maritorio, so the map changed and more than 70,000 square kilometers were attributed to Managua.
At the time, the then president Juan Manuel Santos rejected the ruling, which some experts said was misunderstood as a defeat.
During the early hours of this Thursday, the Court concluded that Colombia “has failed to demonstrate that the Raizales have traditional fishing in the waters that are now Nicaraguan. And therefore dismisses Colombia’s counterclaim.”
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