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World Factbook: Nicaragua Transnational Issues


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Nicaragua Transnational Issues:

Disputes — international:
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 Rica

Illicit drugs:
Transshipment point for cocaine destined for the US and transshipment point for arms-for-drugs dealing


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Washington D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 2005
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