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Nicaragua has international disputes against Honduras and Colombia over maritime boundarys
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Disputes
- international
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Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in 1999 and against
Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over disputed maritime boundary
involving 50,000 sq km in the Caribbean Sea, including the
Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank; the
1992 ICJ ruling for El Salvador and Honduras advised a tripartite
resolution to establish a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca,
which considers Honduran access to the Pacific; legal dispute over
navigational rights of San Juan River on border with Costa
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Illicit
drugs
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transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US and
transshipment point for arms-for-drugs
dealing |
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Source: CIA World Factbook
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