Caribbean & Central America - September 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

The flare-up of tensions between Nicaragua and Costa Rica over Nicaragua’s latest threat to make a claim for the Guanacaste (see page 6) is not the only regional dispute to have re-emerged in recent weeks. On 2 September El Salvador’s government led by President Mauricio Funes presented its Honduran counterpart with a formal protest note after the previous day Honduran military officials raised a Honduran flag on Conejo Island (Rabbit Island) – to which both countries lay claim. The island is located in the Gulf of Fonseca, a Pacific coast area jointly administered by Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

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