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It is the longest border of both Colombia and Venezuela. The border, at least in its terrestrial part, was essentially demarcated by two treaties: the Spanish Arbitration Award of Queen Maria Cristina of 1891 and the Treaty of Limits and River Navigation of 1941. [2] But the definition of the border in the Gulf of Venezuela is still disputed ...
These neighboring countries share a similar history as parts of the Spanish Empire.The border dispute long predates the foundations of the modern nations, and goes back to the difficulties experienced in shaping a boundary between the colonies of Santa Marta (now Santa Marta, Colombia) and New Andalusia (now part of Venezuela). [4]
The 2021 Apure clashes started on 21 March 2021 [14] in the south of the Páez Municipality, in the Apure state in Venezuela, specifically in La Victoria, a location bordering with Colombia, between guerrilla groups identified as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) dissidents and the Venezuelan government led by Nicolás Maduro.
Judges at the World Court on Friday ordered Venezuela to refrain from taking any action that would alter the situation on the ground in a potentially oil-rich territory that is the subject of a ...
The full reopening of the Colombia-Venezuela border will come sooner rather than later, but will depend on legal conditions and the overall re-establishment of bilateral ties, Colombia's commerce ...
Later that day, Venezuela's Minister for Land and Agriculture, Elías Jaua, told the state broadcaster VTV that Venezuela was closing its border with Colombia. [42] On March 5, President Chávez of Venezuela called the Colombian raid a "war crime," and joined Ecuador's president Rafael Correa in demanding international condemnation of the cross ...
The U.S. Border Patrol told OCCRP’s media partner CNN en Español that it has detained 38 suspected Tren de Aragua members in just one year, between October 2022 and 2023. At least two are being ...
Border between Colombia and Costa Rica. Colombia shares borders with Costa Rica in both the Pacific and the Caribbean. Both borders were delimited separately, with the Caribbean border not yet ratified by the Costa Rican Congress due to the problems that have arisen with the demarcation of the border between both countries and Nicaragua.